Welcome to the Department of Language, Literature, and Arts! We are a multidisciplinary department comprising undergraduate and graduate programs in English and Spanish, including teacher certification programs, as well as a minor in Creative Arts and Performance Studies.
Our programs engage students’ intellectual imaginations, providing opportunities to study and create in written, oral, visual, and musical modes. We are firmly rooted in San Antonio’s flourishing creative and cultural communities, offering particular emphasis on Latinx, Indigenous, and Black artistic, rhetorical, and intellectual traditions and centering diverse, multilingual approaches. In collaboration with community partners, we encourage students to apply their knowledge in public and professional contexts to make positive change in and beyond South Texas.
Students in the programs work closely with award-winning faculty who are dynamic teachers, engaged mentors, and leaders in their scholarly and creative fields. Students thus have opportunities to learn from and produce knowledge with professors in areas such as digital humanities, community narratives, Borderlands performance and rhetoric, comics and zines, professional writing, and teaching multilingual students. Because faculty are actively involved in their fields, they offer innovative courses such as Literacy in Latinx Communities, Beyoncé and Black Feminisms, Grant Writing, and Documentary Poetics.
Students who graduate with degrees in language, literature, and arts are prepared to thrive in a range of careers such as teaching, technical and professional writing, editing and publishing, translation and interpretation, and media, arts, and nonprofit work. Many students also pursue advanced studies in the arts and humanities or go on to law school or medical school.
Katherine Gillen
Professor of English
Chair of Language, Literature, and Arts
Classroom Hall 314-J
(210)784-2223
Katherine.Gillen@tamusa.edu
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