What are the special strengths of the Department of English and American Literature?
The faculty currently have special interest in a number of areas: women’s studies, gender and sexuality, modern American literature, Anglophone literature and postcolonial theory, early modern (especially Renaissance) English literature, literature and science, literary theory and philosophy, and contemporary poetry. For further information on the research or teaching interests of particular faculty members, please see the department’s faculty page and click on any name for a biography.