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PHILADELPHIA -- What does -- or should -- the English major look like? Members of an ad hoc committee on the major presented Friday at the Modern Language Association’s annual convention. They reviewed findings from their inquiry into what changes English...

This article originally appeared in Inside Higher Ed. Humanities advocates sometimes dispute data about declining numbers of majors in their disciplines: They don’t always reflect double majors, or overall enrollment in courses, or the diversity of...

Susan Crisafulli, Ph.D., associate professor of English, English Department chair and Humanities Division head, wants students to love literature and writing and see why these areas are important in the world. “I am fascinated with how literature transcends...

In the summers of 1952 and 1953, after completing my sophomore and junior years at another college, I enrolled at Johns Hopkins University in two courses taught by Earl R. Was­serman. The first examined the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley...

On Monday, April 18, 12 members of the Class of 2016 presented their Capstone Projects throughout three sessions in front of parents, faculty, administration and fellow students. As part of this multifaceted, student-directed, long-term investigative...