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We are a dynamic and growing department of nearly fifty tenured and tenure-track faculty. This fall we are delighted to welcome two new faculty—in eighteenth-century British Literature and British Romanticism. With more than one hundred M.A. and Ph.D students and about five-hundred undergraduate majors, we are one of the larger and more diverse departments on the Columbia campus. We offer a wide range of courses in British and American Literature and Creative Writing, as well as special emphases in African Diaspora Studies, Critical Theory, English Language and Linguistics, Folklore and Oral Tradition, and Rhetoric and Composition. We also maintain close working relationships with other units on campus such as Black Studies, Film Studies, Women's & Gender Studies, and the Honors College. As our recent awards and publications can attest, our faculty and graduate students are productive scholars, writers, and teachers, many of them winners of nation-wide awards. Explore some of our recent achievements in the newest Communiqué (pdf).

Whatever your reason for seeking us out, we hope you enjoy your visit to our website.


Please note: We have officially moved back to Tate Hall. Please check the online directory for updated addresses and phone numbers.

Announcements

George Justice's Norton Critical Edition of Emma by Jane Austen has just been published.
Pat Okker's edited collection Transnationalism and American Serial Fiction has been published by Routledge.
Maureen Stanton's creative non-fiction book Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: Seeking History and Hidden Gems in Flea-Market America was published June 2011 Spring by Penguin Press.
Announcing the The Cliff Becker Endowment for the Literary Arts.
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Awards

Elaine Lawless is this year's winner of the Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Nancy West was awarded MU's 2011 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award.
Alex Socarides was awarded a 2011 Provost's Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award.
John Miles Foley was awarded MU's 2011 International Engagement Award.
Elizabeth Chang was awarded a 2011 Kemper Award for Teaching Excellence.
Sam Cohen was awarded a 2011 GSA Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award and a Gold Chalk Award for excellence in graduate teaching.
Devoney Looser was awarded a 2011 Purple Chalk Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

Upcoming Events

12/1: Melanie Rae Thon, reading
12/2: Harold Torrence, lecture
12/2: Melanie Rae Thon, craft talk
12/7: Mock Job Talks

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