The Department of English Language and Literature aims to teach all students to write and speak well and to read skillfully, thoughtfully and with pleasure. We offer many courses that stress literary ...
Marc Bousquet, an English Professor at Emory University, lit a powder keg with his 2014 Chronicle of Higher Education jeremiad, “The Moral Panic in Literary Studies.” Bousquet warned: “Combined with ...
Ph.D. Minnesota '60.History of the study of language, history of ideas, medieval. From Locke to Saussure: Essays on the Study of Language and Intellectual History; The Study of Language in England ...
Recent global developments have sharply polarised communities in many countries around the world. A new politics of exclusion has drawn urgent attention to the ways in which structural inequality has ...
Researchers have uncovered the oldest surviving English poem, 'Caedmon's Hymn,' within a medieval manuscript in Rome, ...
When the British author Bernardine Evaristo was in her early twenties, she and her drama-school friends would go to London’s theatres and heckle the performances. “It wouldn’t have been anything like ...
A lost medieval manuscript in Rome has revealed an early version of 'Cædmon’s Hymn', linking English poetry’s origins to a ...
THIS the concluding volume of the great history of English literature produced by the Cambridge University Press, on the “collective responsibility” of the Master of Peterhouse and Mr. A. R. Waller, ...