The English concentration is designed to train students in the formal analysis of literary texts and to introduce them to their literary and cultural heritage. Graduate Program in English The graduate ...

Literary criticism once had an outsize reach, influencing the terms and concepts of disciplines like art and legal studies. With it came an outsize ego. During the 1970s and 80s, the heyday of ...

James Joyce, Julio Cortazar, Marcel Proust, Henryk Sienkiewicz and Umberto Eco. Regardless of the language they were working in, some of the world's greatest writers appear to be, in some respects, ...

Writing has literally changed the course of human history. The relationship between language and script is profoundly influenced by political, cultural, economic, social and historical forces, which ...

A world literature class may be the first place that some students have encountered European works, let alone non-Western texts. The emphasis in this anthology, therefore, is on non-Western and ...