Welcome
The offering in English is designed to foster good writing, effective speaking, and heightened understanding of culturally significant texts. We encourage students majoring in English to develop their responsiveness to the literary imagination and their sensitivity to literary form through disciplined attention to language, historical contexts, and to critical and scholarly methods.
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Alerts about COURSE CHANGES and DEADLINES.
A full list of spring 2015 courses that require special sign-up is available here. (The list for Barnard Film courses can be found on the Film Studies website.)
page last updated 1/23/15
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Monica Miller celebrates Quandra Prettyman in the Barnard Magazine featuring Africana Studies. Both are members of Barnard's English Department as well as teaching Africana Studies.
The Provost has announced that Patricia Denison will serve as Associate Provost for another three years, causing changes in the 2014-15 course offerings. Check if your program is affected.
Congratulations to our majors winning college awards and the 2014 winners of the English Department's student prizes, including Carmen Ren receiving the inaugural Axinn Foundation/Anna Quindlen Award.
The Writers at Barnard reading series will begin with a reading by the 2013 Women Poets Prize winner, Sandra Lim, on September 17th. See our complete 2014-15 summary of readings and events sponsored by the Department or involving its faculty.
Three alumnae of the Barnard English Department have been nominated for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction.
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English FAQs for you.
New Creative Writing faculty position created enabling Jennifer Boylan to join the Department this fall.
