Students working toward a PhD in English or American literature receive focused attention in our small and rigorous department.
Our department's faculty specialties range from early modern to contemporary, with particular strengths in critical theory and interdisciplinary approaches to literature.
English majors study a broad sampling of literature from different historical periods and national contexts.
Scholarship by our faculty addresses a wide range of pressing questions about the history of literature and the methods of literary criticism.
The Department of English is proud to announce that two undergraduate students, Jack Klein and Sarah Liu, are two of the recipients of this year’s PURA cohort. PURA is the Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award, and is open to undergraduates from any division working with a mentor in any JHU division, center, or institute. Undergraduates have […]
The Department of English is proud to announce current graduate students who have obtained recent publications. Royce Best, a fifth year graduate student, has had his article titled “Write as I bid you’: Eruptive Baroque Aesthetics in Wycherley’s The Country Wife” in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research. Sarah Ross, also a fifth year graduate student, has had […]
The English Department and Prof. Sharon Achinstein are proud to be hosting the Rights, the Human, and Literature in Early Modernity Conference. This is an all-day event taking place on Friday, November 9th, from 8:30am until 5pm. The morning session will take place within the Sherwood Room in Levering Hall and will include coffee. The […]
