Department of English Academic Distinction Statement

As a research-driven, student-centered department, KSU’s Department of English promotes the study of what is unique regarding human expression to empower students to understand who they are and how they should live, while also helping students cultivate and articulate skillsets that will enable them to thrive in viable career pathways.  The department houses three degrees, English (BA), English Education (BS), and Professional Writing (MA), that honor humanistic traditions while teaching students to make a range of contributions to professional and civic life. Additionally, the department is home to core programs in First-Year Composition and General Education Literature, essential areas to KSU’s undergraduate student success ecosystem. The students the department serves are fully representative of the communities we serve in the metropolitan area and region, and we embrace high-impact practices such as mentored research, community-engaged learning, and internships in order to support their ability to succeed. The faculty, who pursue multifaceted research and creative endeavors, elevate KSU’s profile, impacting both local and global communities.

Commit to the Study and Research of English

The Department of English at Kennesaw State is committed to excellent teaching, scholarship, and service to the university and the community. With a dynamic faculty engaged in a variety of research approaches, the department models and promotes scholarship that honors humanistic traditions while making a range of contributions to university and civic life.

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Gold Level for Excellence in Assessment

B.A. in English and B.S. in English Education received the highest rating of “Exceeds” on all criteria in the 2023 – 2024 Assessment of Learning Report.

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    Game Design Lecture with Vine Moss Games
    Game Design Lecture with Vine Moss Games
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    Join Devinne Moses, local Georgia indie developer and founder of Vine Moss Games for a talk discussing his work creating imaginative, literary nano-games which each feel unique in presentation, design and narrative while remaining tethered to human experiences that each and everyone one of us experience, across space, culture, histories and experiences.

     

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    M.A. in Professional Writing Virtual Info Session
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    This event will provide an overview of the MAPW program, application process,
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    Game Design Workshop with Vine Moss Games
    Game Design Workshop with Vine Moss Games
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    Join Devinne Moses, local Georgia indie developer and founder of Vine Moss Games for an interactive game development workshop. Play new releases from Vine Moss, learn about programming, game narrative, and other facets of game design. 

     

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    Staged Reading: The Student Body
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    Attend a reading of The Student Body, an official selection for the 2026 Spotlight New Works Fest in New York!

     

    The unique element of this staged reading is the AUDIENCE. In addition to general audiences, we are particularly inviting young adults including FYC students and high school seniors (and their parents and teachers) and YOU.  

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    Author Soniah Kamal with Dr. Ananya Vahal-Perez at The Nest
    Author Soniah Kamal with Dr. Ananya Vahal-Perez at The Nest
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    Soniah Kamal is an award-winning novelist, essayist and public speaker. Her most recent novel, Unmarriageable, has been hailed "the gold standard of Pride and Prejudice adaptations". Unmarriageable is a Financial Times Readers’ Best Book of 2019, a New York Public Library, a NPR Code Switch Summer Read Pick, a People’s Magazine pick, a ‘Books All Georgians Should Read,’ a 2020 Georgia Author of the Year for Literary Fiction nominee and shortlisted for the 2020 Townsend Award for Fiction and more. Soniah's work has appeared in critically acclaimed anthologies and publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic. Soniah has an MFA from Georgia State University where she was a Paul Bowles Fiction Fellow and a BA in Philosophy from St. Johns College where her thesis received the Susan. B. Irene Award.

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    Join us for live readings of faculty-selected scripts written by students in the English department's undergraduate and MAPW graduate courses. 

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    Join us as we celebrate the capstone projects of the Spring 2026 MAPW graduates!

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