Why doesn the department offer courses on literature in translation?
Since we are an English department, not a comparative literature department, foreign literatures in translation fall outside of our field. Contrary to rumors, however, we do not prohibit translations from being taught in our regular course offerings. On the contrary, several of us use translations in our classes in order to ramify historical and cultural understandings of the literature in question. We know that literature in languages other than English has had a profound effect upon the development of literature and culture in primarily English-speaking countries and we are attuned to the effects of networking and globalization upon all languages. For these reasons the department lets majors count one literature course from foreign language and other departments or programs toward the major. A preliminary list of courses available for such credit are listed on the Approved Courses page. While most such courses are likely to be in translation, some literature courses in the original l
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