Welcome to the Department of English, Speech, and Foreign Languages at Texas Woman's University, one of the founding departments when the university began in 1903. The history of the department is long and rich. With a Ph.D. program in Rhetoric, our department is a center for the study of literature, language, and writing. We offer a series of courses on writing, literature, and foreign languages, as well as English language courses for international students. Our activities in classes, in the Write Site, and in our organizations, such as ERGO, reflect our commitment to preparing and empowering students for participation in our society's discourses. In addition, we offer the following programs of study:

Paul Holdengraeber talks with Portuguese writer Antonio Lobo Antunes, and we discover that the Odyssey can be summed up this way:  "I will be home late."

Antonio Lobo Antunes in Conversation