Department of Languages and Literature, VSU

Department of Languages and Literature, VSU We develop competence with language skills: writing, speaking, & critical thinking. Welcome to the Department of Languages and Literature.

We are a close-knit family and our students receive special attention. Regardless of your major or minor program, you will engage in vibrant classes of 10 to 25 students, and develop working relationships with our faculty. We offer a wide range of courses in the fields of English, English education, foreign languages, writing, drama and speech. The Department also is pleased to offer all VSU stude

nts the use of its foreign language laboratory, located in Room B-1 of Colson Hall. Other special facilities include an electronic classroom and an adaptable blackbox theater space. For undergraduates, we offer a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, with the option of minoring in Secondary Education for those interested in teaching. Students may also minor in English as well as the following: Africana Studies, Film Studies in Literature, drama, writing, Spanish, French and German.

09/03/2026

The Kenyon Review is accepting work through Submittable now until September 30!

Our general reading period is always free to submit to. Find complete submission guidelines on our website.

http://kenyonreview.org/submit

09/03/2026

The U.S. Information Agency filmed a roundtable on August 28, 1963,...

09/02/2026
08/30/2026

African speculative fiction is not a simple genre.

It does however start with a simple question: what if?

What if time bends? What if gods walk among us? What if technology reshapes our cities? What if the futures look different from the ones we’re told to expect?

As we celebrate this year’s Nommo Award Winners, we extend our thanks to Tom Ilube CBE, patron of the Nommo Awards, who has been supporting the awards since their inception.

From grounding our futures in cultural memory, to daring us to envision radically different worlds, African speculative fiction continues to grow, inspire, and transform.

✨ African stories are world-making stories.
✨ African futures are global futures.

And we’re just getting started.

Together, these forms create a bridge between past and future, memory and possibility, heritage and reinvention.

The African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS) was built to nurture that bridge to celebrate the creators who are reshaping global literature, to uplift voices imagining worlds beyond the limits placed on them, and to make sure this creative explosion receives the recognition it deserves.

If you are interested in being a patron, or donor please follow the link in our bio, or get in touch if you would like to discuss in more detail.

08/29/2026

Here are some of the most infamous haters and villains from the 1970s.

* Carol Speed as Abby in "Abby" (1974)
* Zuni fe**sh doll from "Trilogy of Terror" (1975)
* Badja Djola as Half-Dead in "Penitentairy" (1979)
* Maurice Marshall as Damon in "Cooley High" (1975)
* Mabel King as Evillene (the Wicked Witch of the West) in "The Wiz" (1978)
* Nichelle Nichols as Dorinda in "Truck Turner" (1974)
* D'Urville Martin as Willie Green in "Dolemite" (1975)
* Rhetta Greene (as Ruth Ann), Louise Stubbs (as Mama Rose), and Gloria Edwards (as Norma) in "Black Girl" (1972)
* Yaphet Kotto (as Kananga) and Julius Harris (as Tee Hee) in "Live and Let Die" (1973)

08/26/2026

Come for the theatre. Leave with something you’ll carry long after the curtain closes. 🎭🖤

Be in the room September 3–5. (Labor Day weekend) | 🎟️ ABTF.ludus.com

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