Wichita State鈥檚 Department of English incorporates four specialty areas: Literature, Creative Writing, Linguistics, and Writing. We write poetry, novels, literary criticism, articles on composition and pedagogy, cultural studies, data-driven linguistic analyses. We study the content and materiality of books to recover voices from the past, and engage in digital projects to preserve these voices for the future. We investigate the essence of language. In all, our research and creative activity is a crucial part of 黑洞社区鈥檚 mission: we are the cultural ambassadors to everyone invested in The Written Word.