Each student will design a custom concentration to suit his or her academic and professional interests. Sample concentrations include areas such as creative writing, professional writing and editing, rhetoric and discourse studies, and literature and film.Traditionally,  English studies have focused on the  British and American literature and language.  But contemporary English studies — like the English language itself — has a global reach.  Our curriculum is shaped by the flow of English-speaking people and cultural production in English across both time and space, combining historical, linguistic and cultural analysis with creative work in literature, film, and emerging media.   The varied interests of our faculty and students include creative writing, rhetoric and discourse studies, gender and women’s studies, film studies, digital humanities, and the full range of literatures and varieties of English, including African American, the African Diaspora, Latina/o, Asian American, and South Asian studies.