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, ...

Analyze global works of literature from medieval poetry to postmodern theory. Graduate as a critical thinker, writer and reader firmly rooted in narrative and rhetorical analysis. As a literary ...

T here’s a conservative turn happening in literary studies, although it hasn’t received much public attention. Those involved certainly haven’t banded together under a banner. In literature ...

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 ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The humanities study the things humans make. That definition is better—more accurate and more ...

Peter D. McDonald receives funding from the AHRC and the Leverhulme Trust. Decolonising literary studies isn’t simply a matter of relieving the symptoms, substituting this author for that or setting ...

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 ...

He was most closely associated with the Yale School, which took on the foundations of literary scholarship in the 1970s and ’80s. By Clay Risen J. Hillis Miller, a literary critic who, by applying the ...

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.