I am interested in doing an Honors Thesis, how do I get information about the program?Confer with the Director of Honors to receive preliminary acceptance to the program.What is the GPA requirement for the Honors Program?You need at least a 3.7 GPA in the major.
These courses provide a sample of the kinds of courses that count toward the Minority, Indigenous, and Third World Studies (MITWS) minor through the Department of Literatures in English. Please consult with the Advisor to Minors (Satya P. Mohanty, mohanty@cornell.edu) with questions about other courses counting for the MITWS minor.
Previous issues of English at Cornell, a newsletter from the Department of English, can be found below. Production of this publication is made possible in part by a gift from Cynthia Leder ’77.
Our graduate programs enable advanced students to pursue intensive study with distinguished faculty committed to a creative and intellectual community. Courses and related programs link students at all levels with interdisciplinary opportunities on campus, while a lively series of speakers, colloquia and conferences provide a context for sustained learning and debate within the humanities. Alumni from our programs have garnered an outstanding range of accomplishments.
A. D. White Shifts the Literary FocusWhen Cornell University was founded in 1865, the study of modern literature was by no means an established part of college curricula.
Explore the links below for resources and publications of interest related to Creative Writing at Cornell:Epoch Literary MagazineRainy DayStudy In Rome
Barbara and David Zalaznick’s generous endowment makes it possible for the Creative Writing Program to invite several writers, who range from debut poets and novelists to nationally and internationally renowned writers, to campus each semester. In the selection, we consider how writers would impact our curriculum, faculty, and our graduate and undergraduate literature and writing students. Consequently, the reading series has become an integrated and valuable part of our students' education.
Cornell University offers many options for study and research. The following departments and programs are closely connected to the Department of Literatures in English through joint faculty members, cross-listed courses and collaborative events and projects.
AdministrationThe Department of Literatures in English Main Administrative Office located at 250 Goldwin Smith Hall is open Monday-Friday 9am-4pm. The mailroom and copy room are open Monday-Friday 8:30am-4:30pm. For general inquires about the MFA and/or PhD graduate programs, reach out to english_grad@cornell.edu. If, after perusing the below lists of faculty and staff administrators, you are unable to determine who to contact, you can email english_dept@cornell.edu, our general inquiry email address.
In Millennial Feminism at Work, volume editor Jane Juffer brings together recently graduated students from across the US to reflect on the relevance of their feminist studies programs in their chosen career paths. The result is a dynamic collection of voices, shaking up preconceived ideas and showing the positive influence of gender and sexuality studies on individuals at work.
Let Me Think is a meticulous selection of short stories by one of the preeminent chroniclers of the American absurd. Through J. Robert Lennon’s mordant yet sympathetic eye, the quotidian realities of marriage, family, and work are rendered powerfully strange in this rich and innovative collection.
An unnamed woman checks into a guesthouse in a mysterious district known only as the Subdivision. The guesthouse’s owners, Clara and the Judge, are welcoming and helpful, if oddly preoccupied by the perpetually baffling jigsaw puzzle in the living room. With little more than a hand-drawn map and vague memories of her troubled past, the narrator ventures out in search of a job, an apartment, and a fresh start in life.
In Feral Ornamentals, Charlie Green takes the particles and atoms that are our lives, reads them inside out and gives us beauty that says we are here and that every breath is art, whether we are grieving, loving, at war, or simply watching the snow fall and boiling eggs. “You can’t live in the past, but still you can die there”–read this gift in the present so that we do not die in the past.
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