Writing
Love to write? A minor in writing from Rollins not only nurtures and strengthens your passion, but also helps you develop a set of sought-after skills that will prepare you for a range of career opportunities when you graduate. With a writing minor, you can choose from one of two concentrations: creative writing or professional writing.
The creative writing concentration emphasis the writing of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction via a workshop method, which gives you extensive experience in producing and critiquing text. The professional concentration arms you with a critical understanding of the rhetorical processes underlying communication in various media and the problem-solving skills needed to adapt in the face of continual technological and cultural change.
Expert Faculty
Department of English
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Vidhu Aggarwal, PhD
Theodore Lawrence and Barbara Alfond Professor
Research interests: Contemporary and modernist poetry and poetics, with specialties in visual culture and Anglophone literatures
William Boles, PhD
Jeanette McKean Professor
Research interests: Drama
Victoria Brown, MFA
Associate Professor
Research interests: Fiction and creative nonfiction, transnational literature with a focus on contemporary Caribbean writers and post-colonial theory
Martha Cheng, PhD
Professor
Research interests: Rhetorical theory, argumentation, visual rhetoric, discourse studies, and professional writing
Matthew Forsythe, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Fiction and creative nonfiction, American literature, the wilderness, and the elusive narrator in 20th-century fiction
Carol Frost, MA
Professor Emeritus of English
Research interests: Poetry
Ben Hudson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research interests: 19th-century British literature, aestheticism, sexuality studies, and the intellectual history of amateurism
Jill Jones, PhD
Professor
Research interests: 19th- and 20th-century American literature, African American literature, women writers, and autobiography
Jana Mathews, PhD
Professor; Co-Director, Pre-Law Advising
Research interests: Literature and culture of medieval and early modern England, with concentrations in alliterative poetry, legal studies, material culture, and kingship
Maurice O'Sullivan, PhD
Professor of English
Research interests: Literature and pedagogy
Paul Reich, PhD
Professor
Research interests: Late 19th- and 20th-century American literature, African American literature, the American West, and popular culture
Emily Russell, PhD
Kenneth L. Curry Professor
Research interests: Medical humanities, disability studies, 20th-century American literature