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 ...

The metaphors of mirrors and windows have long had an association with children’s literature. Books as mirrors reflect the worlds and experiences of children back at them, acknowledging and affirming ...

When Rachel Stewart was a rising senior at Bellbrook High School in Ohio, her assigned reading for AP Literature included a work of criticism that she dreaded getting through: "How to Read Literature ...

Like all forms of art, literature is open to interpretation. Ask five people and you may get 10 different descriptions of what constitutes a classic novel. The English literature curriculum at schools ...

In Monica Wood’s rich new novel, “How to Read a Book,” death, prison and poetry become the catalyst for new beginnings. By Helen Simonson Helen Simonson is the author of “Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand” ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

BETWEEN the language of literature and the language of common life there must be, whether in a living tongue or a dead one, differences growing out of the nature of literature. The very making of ...

Kate Flaherty works for the Australian National University. From 2008-2010 she was the recipient of an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Award (Industry) at The University of Sydney for the ...

Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DST-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor of Genetics, University of Pretoria Brenda Wingfield receives funding from NRF and DST.