Professor Alberto Cacicedo, Chair
Professors Mary Jane Androne and Richard Androne
Associate Professors Gary Adlestein , Jon Bekken, Director of the Program in Communications, Teresa Gilliams, Lawrence Morris, and Melissa Nicolas, Director of the Writing Center
Assistant Professors  Ethan Joella, Director of the ESL Program, Katherine Lehman and Margaret Rakus
Instructors Denise Greenwood , Maria Mogford,  Marion Piccolomini and Marian Wolbers
Lecturers Theresa Barbieri, Evelyn Christian, Diane Conrad, James Gaffney, Stephanie Herbein, Dorothy Hoerr, Heather L. Kendall, Rachel Liberatore, Maria McDonnell,  Theodore Silar, Jim Speese, Claudia Strauss and Jerry Tartaglia

General Studies and Elective Offerings

In addition to offering upper level concentration and special non-concentration programs, Albright's English Department is a vital part of the College's liberal arts core - the general studies programs - in the areas of composition and literature. All students at Albright take at least one composition course, usually English 102. Students also take four humanities courses, one or two of which may be literature courses. The humanities-literature requirement may be met with courses in the literature of any language, but most students select one of the specially designed 200-level general studies literature courses: 210, 235 and 270. General studies students are not confined to courses on the 200-level. They are encouraged to inquire about the appropriateness of any course offered by the department.

Nearly all of the department's offerings have proven to be both popular and enriching elective courses, and many of Albright's concentrators in other programs have rounded off their liberal arts experience at the College with courses in communications, drama, literature, speech, creative writing, or one of the department's travel courses offered from time to time during Interim session to such places as London, Dublin and Italy.

Students interested in supervised creative writing projects may pursue them on an individual study basis after approval by a departmental adviser. The English Department maintains a Writing Center where students of all disciplines are welcome to seek assistance in redrafting papers and in improving writing skills. Albright's Theatre Department offers several dramatic literature courses that may be used to satisfy general studies humanities-literature or English concentration requirements. Please see the Theatre section for descriptions of these courses.

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