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 ...
Arts & Social Sciences Department of English The department of English offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in English to prepare graduates for a multitude of career choices. Students can take ...
OSLO—A hibakusha who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima is traveling to Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize festivities here with a book of English poetry and writings about her experience.
‘Literature’, says the poet Ezra Pound, ‘is news that stays news’. Our rich and vital literary inheritance informs the way we think about the world. It expresses how we feel about ourselves and others ...
Poetry can be a daunting prospect for students. The phrase “I don’t get poems!” may ricochet around the classroom as soon as you excitedly (and rather hopefully) display your favourite Rossetti on the ...
English literature could also be made more relevant. That is not – repeat, not – about bemoaning the canon for being too “male, pale and stale”, as Sharon Hague, the managing director of ...