The offering in English is designed to foster good writing, effective speaking, and heightened understanding of culturally significant texts.  We encourage students majoring in English to develop their responsiveness to the literary imagination and their sensitivity to literary form through disciplined attention to language, historical contexts, and to critical and scholarly methods.

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Page last updated 2/4/10

3105: Fiction & Personal Narrative, taught by Darcey Steinke, will meet on Tuesdays from 4:10-6pm this fall, instead of earlier in the day.

3113: Playwriting I, taught by Ellen McLaughlin, will meet on Mondays from 9-10:50am this fall, instead of during the afternoon.

3120: Creative Non Fiction, taught by Honor Moore this fall, will meet on Thursdays from 2:10-4pm.

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2010 Department of English student awards.

The on-line sign-up program for the English Junior Colloquium and Senior Seminars is over and the results are viewable in the "Eng Sem" tab in eBear. Click to view more about the sign-up process for English courses.

Meg Wolitzer will teach 3115: Story Writing I next fall.  Richard Panek will teach 3120: Creative Non Fiction in the spring.   For details on these and other updates, visit our course announcements page.

Copies of the SALMAGUNDI special issue on Margarethe Von Trotta (which contain a DVD of her recent feature film) are still available for purchase at the English Department office (417 Barnard Hall).