Welcome Back!
Welcome Back!

Welcome back to campus and to the 2024-25 academic year, with a special welcome to first-year students and newly declared majors and minors! I’m delighted to greet you in my role as new department chair.

PlayPause
previous arrow
next arrow

Former Jenny McKean Moore Writer in Residence Tayari Jones — one of the most beloved teachers ever to fill that position — …

The first Wang Visiting Professor in Contemporary English Literature will be Edward P. Jones, an African American author of world fame. A …

Despite my reputation as Mean Old Professor Cohen, my former student Ivan Kander recently friended me on Facebook. He must be over …

Professor and Chair Jeffrey Cohen has published a new collection of essays on the uneasy co-existence of multiple cultures in medieval Britain. …

Summer Reading

For reasons that will become more clear very soon, may we suggest that you add to your summer reading list a work …

Matt Fullerty, a graduate of our doctoral program, writes that he has won an unpublished novel competition. All the details are at …