We are a dynamic and growing department of nearly fifty tenured and tenure-track faculty. 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) or Tate Times.

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News/Announcements

Donna Strickland has published a new book, The Writing Program Interrupted: Making Space for Critical Discourse,
     just released by Heinemann Press.
Sam Cohen has published a new book, After the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s, just released by
     Univ. of Iowa Press. A new edition of his textbook, Literature: A Human Experience, has also been released
     by Bedford/St. Martin's.
Scott Cairns has published a new, book-length essay, The End of Suffering, just released by Paraclete Press.
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Upcoming Events

11/17: Tomaz Salamun, reading
12/1: EGSA Meeting
12/4: Mock Job Talk

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