English Language & Literature

Welcome to the Department of English Language & Literature The Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan has long been recognized as one of the top English departments in the nation.

Classrooms are everywhere at NELP. For six and a half weeks, 40 students and 13 UM instructors live and work together closely, reading New England authors, writing, and exploring the New England countryside, its people, culture, and history.

The Hopwood Program The Hopwood Writing Program—offering some of the most prestigious financial awards available to students at the University. Find out more about this affiliated program...

Living the rustic life We live at NELP for 45 days in the woods, in simple cabins along a lake, with no cell phones, computers, recorded music or other things that tend to take up a lot of our time in Ann Arbor. So we build fires, write letters, make our own music, read a lot of books, and bake a lot of cookies...

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Recent News

Michigan voters made history on election night November 6, 2018 by choosing Dana Nessel to become the state’s first openly gay attorney general.

Attorney General- Elect Nessel is an alumnus of the New England Literature Program (NELP XV, 1989).

Phil Christman, lecturer II in English language and literature, has been featured in The Record for his work as editor of the Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing.

Professor Christman teaches ENG 125 Writing and Academic Inquiry.

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