We believe that learning to use the English language powerfully and precisely within a world of so many languages and cultures will give you the tools to become a critical and creative thinker, able to analyze and interpret individual literary texts, while making enlightened connections with other works and disciplines. Each of our classes will help you develop an informed awareness of traditions and cultural, historical, and literary variations and progressions.

Simultaneously, intensive writing practice will guide you towards clear and elegant expression as you acquire professional writing skills within the cultural sphere. We champion intellectual ambition, creativity, and imagination. We encourage you to pay close attention to the written word when analyzing historical, social, philosophical, and psychological processes, so that you can explore the capacity of language to inform reflection on human values and societal differences and mobilize your creative imagination.

Minors

Faculty

  • Aurelien Bellucci

    Junior Lecturer

  • Alice Craven

    Professor

  • Sian Dafydd

    Assistant Professor

  • Amanda Dennis

    Assistant Professor

  • William Dow

    Professor

  • Biswamit Dwibedy

    Assistant Professor

  • Oliver Feltham

    Professor

  • Geoffrey Gilbert

    Professor, Director of the Teaching and Learning Center

  • Daniel Gunn

    Distinguished Professor

  • Adrian Harding

    Assistant Professor

  • Heather Hartley

    Lecturer

  • Brenton Hobart

    Associate Professor

  • Cary Hollinshead-strick

    Associate Professor

  • Elizabeth Kinne

    Assistant Professor

  • Lauren Lydic

    Lecturer

  • Linda Martz

    Associate Professor

  • Daniel Medin

    Professor, Department Chair - Comparative Literature & English

  • Avigail Moss

    Lecturer

  • Ann Mott

    Assistant Professor, Director of the Writing Lab

  • Anne-Marie Picard

    Professor

  • Rebekah Rast

    Professor

  • Sneharika Roy

    Associate Professor, Writing Program Administrator

  • Sei Shiomi

    Junior Lecturer

  • David Tresilian

    Assistant Professor

  • Jula Wildberger

    Professor

  • Russell Williams

    Associate Professor, Director of the Learning Commons and Director of Faculty Development

Faculty Emeriti

Jeffrey Greene
Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing
BA, Goddard College
MFA, University of Iowa
PhD, University of Houston

Richard Pevear
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature
BA, Allegheny College
MA, University of Virginia

Roy Rosenstein
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature
Licence, Paris V
B.A., Columbia University
M. A., Harvard University
Maîtrise, Paris IV
PhD, Columbia University 

Margery Safir
Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature
BA, Columbia University
MA, MPhil, PhD, Yale University

FACULTY EMERITI, IN MEMORIAM

Marc Pelen †
Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature
BA, MA, PhD, Princeton University