How does an aspiring graduate student in English traverse the confusion of the graduate school application process? [more inside]
posted on Jul 22, 2008 - 17 answers

What does one do with a degree in literature? [more inside]
posted on Jul 16, 2008 - 40 answers

EnglishMajorFilter: Why can't I stand much of the canon? How can I learn to appreciate it? [more inside]
posted on Apr 3, 2007 - 35 answers

Is Science Fiction primarily an American genre of literature? [more inside]
posted on Nov 4, 2006 - 35 answers

Next year I'm teaching a course on science and literature after 1945. What should I put on the syllabus? [more inside]
posted on Jul 5, 2006 - 28 answers

Okay, I have realised that for my English Literature exam on Monday I have spent most of my time revising Blake (1/2 of the exam) and next to no time with Hamlet (the other 1/2 of the exam) learning quotes, key themes etc - we have read the play in class twice, the last time being about 4 weeks ago. Any help to make this exam go as painlessly as possible? I realise I may already be a lost cause. [more inside]
posted on Jun 8, 2006 - 29 answers

Bookworm MeFites: I'm looking for novels, short stories, and plays by white authors where their non-white characters speak in a dialect. For instance, the slave Jim in Twain's Huckleberry Finn. [more inside]
posted on May 25, 2006 - 45 answers

Can anyone recommend a dictionary or guide to 17th-century English that would help my teenage daughter understand the words she comes across when reading Milton and the boys?
posted on Jul 20, 2005 - 10 answers

I would like to go to school (for a PhD in English Literature) in New Zealand and would very much like some advice. [more inside]
posted on Oct 20, 2004 - 3 answers