Why study English? Literature explores many of the enduring questions we confront as we grapple with our world. At the same time, it emboldens our capacity to re-imagine that world.
The stories we tell matter, as does the language used to give those stories shape. Our programs explore the pleasures of reading and writing while strengthening skills in critical thinking and problem solving. Our faculty guide you in acquiring multiple literacies as you learn to interpret a wide range of texts and genres. Our programs prepare you for a wide range of existing careers; they also foster the adaptability to help you in careers that are still emerging.
SPOTLIGHT
New faculty and new courses for Fall 2017
Joycestick: The Gamification of 'Ulysses'
“We look at VR as the ultimate empathy machine, in that we don’t simply want to excite the readers – the viewers – but to move them to engage them with the emotions and events in the book.”
Publications
An Underground Theatre: Major Playwrights in the Irish Language 1930-80
Philip O'Leary
University College of Dublin Press, 2017
The Bittersweet Science: Fifteen Writers in The Gym, in the Corner, and at the Ringside
Carlo Rotella (ed) with Michael Ezra
More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers (Melville Press 2017)
Chris Boucher (ed), Jonathan Lethem
Melville House, April 2016
English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History
Eric Weiskott
Cambridge University Press, December 2016
Impossible Modernism: T. S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, and the Critique of Historical Reason
Robert Lehman
Stanford University Press, August 2016
Where do our graduates work?
New York Magazine
Freelance writer
Penguin Random House
Associate Editor
Forbes
Staff Reporter
National Geographic Traveler
Editor
Chronicle of Higher Education
Writer
Chief of Surgery
Eastern Regional Medical Center
Down Jones News Service
Reporter
Seton Hall University
Assistant Professor
Account Manager
Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising
