WordNet
department of English
n. the academic department responsible for teaching English and American literature [syn: English department]
Usage examples of "department of english".
He would, subject to formal acceptance of his PhD thesis this summer, be joining the faculty of the Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences, Auden University.
Hart, head of the Department of English and Dean of Graduate Studies, was on the stand.
Mullen and Darko Suvin (Department of English, Indiana State University).
Dick (whether in the department of English, theology, philosophy, or pharmacy, he does not say).
Manly, a 52-year-old philologist who headed the Department of English at the University of Chicago and was later president of the Modern Language Association.