Special features of Bucknell's program Students are encouraged to join faculty in attending lectures of nationally-known speakers on literature and literary theory who come to campus to lecture and visit classes. English Department offers courses in creative writing taught by widely published authors of fiction and poetry. Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets allows eight promising undergraduate poets from across the country, as well as three advanced Bucknell students, to study as fellows in summer program held for four weeks in June. Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing provides a young writer of some record of accomplishment opportunity to engage in work over two months coinciding with fall semester. In alternate years residence awarded to writer of fiction and poet.
Writer gives public reading of work and is available to students to talk informally.
Visiting Poet Series brings a renowned poet to campus for a brief residency. The poet visits a class, gives an informal talk on poetics, and does a reading. Faculty For a list of Bucknell English Department faculty and faculty specialties, click here . Recent faculty awards Many faculty members in the English Department are recipients of university teaching awards. Professor Saundra Morris won the 2000 Forrest D. Brown Award for community service and involvement.