Alumni & Giving

Champion words. Change lives.

Give to the Department of English and you invest in skills the workforce, our communities and education increasingly depend on: reading, writing, digital production and information literacy. Nearly every UofL student takes an English course or benefits from the department’s work building a healthy community of readers, writers and thinkers. Your gift helps offset cuts to instructor support, sustains student clubs and writing groups, and expands the department’s outreach across campus and the city. In a world flooded with information, you’re supporting the people who can make sense of it, and tell its stories well. Thank you for your support.

Ways to Give

English Department Gift Fund — supports the department's greatest needs, from student opportunity and recognition to special projects that keep our work moving forward.

Writing & Publishing

• Leon V. Driskell Creative Writing Fund — supports creative writing students and their work.

• Miracle Monocle — supports the department's literary magazine and the students who produce it.

• Writing, Editing, and Publishing Lab — supports the department's WEP Lab, where students gain hands-on experience in editing and publishing. (Two funds share this name: an endowment, E2517, and a current-use gift fund, G3684.)

Conferences & Lectures

• Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture — supports the department's annual scholarly conference.

• Wittreich Family Lectureship in English — brings distinguished speakers in English and literary studies to campus.

Awards & Endowments

• Leon V. Driskell Creative Writing Fund (listed above)

• Barbara Plattus Award — recognizes outstanding achievement in English.

• Fred W. Bornhauser Endowment — provides permanent, ongoing support for the department.

How to give online

1. Click Give Now.
2. Choose one-time, monthly, or yearly.
3. Under Departments, select English.