Department of Language, Culture & Gender Studies

"The Hate U Give" author Angie Thomas speaks at the 2020 Jamison Lecture.

TWU Language, Culture & Gender Studies is home to the Write Site, a comprehensive center for tutoring, instruction, resources and more.

Texas Poet Laureate Emmy Pérez led an on-campus reading, lecture and book-signing. Photo credit: Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.

Book cover for Department Chair Genevieve West's Zora Neale Hurston collection, 'Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick'

TWU at PRIDENTON on the Square.

Women's March at Denton's Courthouse on the Square.

"The Hate U Give" author Angie Thomas speaks at the 2020 Jamison Lecture.

TWU Language, Culture & Gender Studies is home to the Write Site, a comprehensive center for tutoring, instruction, resources and more.

Texas Poet Laureate Emmy Pérez led an on-campus reading, lecture and book-signing. Photo credit: Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.

Book cover for Department Chair Genevieve West's Zora Neale Hurston collection, 'Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick'

TWU at PRIDENTON on the Square.

Women's March at Denton's Courthouse on the Square.

"The Hate U Give" author Angie Thomas speaks at the 2020 Jamison Lecture.

Who we are

We are an engaged, dynamic cadre of compassionate faculty working across a wide range of academic disciplines:

• English studies, including composition, digital humanities, linguistics, literature, global studies, multimodality, professional and technical writing, rhetorical history and theory.
• Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies with current focuses on art, activism, Gloria Anzaldua, spirituality and women of colors.
• Spanish language, literature, interpretation and translation.

Our mission, vision and values bind our work as teachers, scholars, collaborators and leaders.

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