We are a diverse department with a diverse mission. We teach First-Year Composition to all the students at the University of Tennessee, and we teach literature to a sizable percentage of that total. We have an undergraduate major with four "concentrations": creative writing, literature, rhetoric and writing, and technical communication. We offer an MA and a PhD. within the M.A., we have concentrations in literature and in writing. In the Ph.D., we have concentrations in Literature, Criticism, and Textual Studies; in Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics; and in English with Creative Dissertation. English Departmental Page