Shortly before the 40th anniversary of the Argentine writer’s death, a new book explores a course he taught in 1966 ...

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 ...

For College of Arts, Sciences & Education English Assistant Professor Mark Kelley, there’s nothing as exhilarating as being out on the water—the feeling of freedom, the vastness, the intrigue of the ...

Larzer Ziff, a globally renowned scholar of American literary culture and intellectual history and an inspirational mentor, died Nov. 25. Ziff, a professor emeritus and research professor in the ...

About the book: This book brings together leading critics in American literature to address the representation of time throughout a wide range of genres, methodologies, and chronological periods.

Literature hews to standards outside of the democratic logic. A canonical work does not attain that status by majority consent. Claims of merit do not require a reader’s consent to be authoritative.

English 111. Freshman English. In one segment of the semester, we examined Fredric Brown's "Arena" and compared it to the 1960's Star Trek version of the story. Not only were visual similarities and ...

PART OF A MAN’S LIFE. “The uttered part of a man’s life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others.”— ...

Assists in the development of the basics of written expression and reading, including grammar, sentence and paragraph structure, thesis formulation, complexities of expository works. Pass/No Pass only ...