If you love reading, writing and talking about books, this minor is for you! The literary studies program is filled with interesting courses, encouraging faculty and thriving student organizations.

Humanists usually take to math like cats to water. But literary critics of late have been embracing statistics and other quantitative measures. Humanists usually take to math like cats to water. But ...

We are accepting Fall 2026 applications for our Ph.D. programs. We plan to resume M.A. and MFA admissions in Fall 2027 The BA-MA, MA, and PhD degree programs in English and American Literature enable ...

In the low-budget realm of humanities grantmaking, a University of Virginia press release this May came as a shock. The Danish National Research Foundation had awarded roughly $4.2 million to a ...

For all the debates that have roiled literature departments over the past 60 years, the history of the discipline itself is a source of surprising consensus. According to the standard narrative, ...

In a widely discussed and very disheartening New Yorker piece this spring, Nathan Heller reported on the state of the English major and found it wanting. Perhaps the most alarming moment in the long ...

Since coming to office, the Obama Administration has been intent on standardizing what is taught at each grade level in all of the nation’s schools. It has used its flagship “Race to the Top” ...

Style, Vol. 36, No. 4, Resources in Stylistics and Literary Analysis (Winter 2002), pp. 596-616 (21 pages) Adaptationist literary study now constitutes a distinct school. Adaptationist literary ...

Today, Breeanna Elliott, a history teacher and the outreach specialist at Boston University’s African Studies Center, shares why an interdisciplinary approach is critical to teach a balanced social ...

Literary studies investigate texts through a range of approaches that span traditional close reading and critical theory to modern computational, cognitive, and interdisciplinary methodologies. The ...