Pushing and shoving, London’s population reached one million around 1800. And quantity, writes John Plotz, changed the quality of city life. Londoners, he says, were confronted with a new kind of ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

The Department of English Language and Literature aims to teach all students to write and speak well and to read skillfully, thoughtfully and with pleasure. We offer many courses that stress literary ...

At UB, we take an approach to the study of 20th-century British literature that is fully attentive to the changes to the field brought about by related fields such as postcolonial studies and cultural ...

Samuel Hynes, the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature, Emeritus, and professor of English, emeritus, died at home in Princeton on Oct. 10. He was 95. Hynes joined the Princeton faculty in 1976 and ...

The Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling should be taken seriously as literature, says Paige Byam, an associate professor of English at Northern Kentucky University. They are part of the tradition of ...

When the British author Bernardine Evaristo was in her early twenties, she and her drama-school friends would go to London’s theatres and heckle the performances. “It wouldn’t have been anything like ...

TO REACH Blackwater you take the Yarmouth Road out of Norwich, passing housing estates, a shimmering glass business park and a tangle of roundabouts. On the far side of Postwick, a throwback English ...

I used to read “Harry Potter” to my son every night. (I do a killer Hagrid.) You may recall that in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” (“the Philosophers’ Stone” in the UK) Hagrid takes young ...

Like millions of fans, Rachel Lapp was ecstatic when Taylor Swift released her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, in spring 2024. An instructional designer at the University of Delaware ...