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The English Department at Brown grants both undergraduate (A.B. and A.B. with Honors) and graduate degrees (M.A. and Ph.D). We provide one of the largest undergraduate humanities concentrations at Brown, offering many courses of interest to the University community as a whole and maintaining close ties to Africana Studies, American Civilization, Comparative Literature, Modern Culture & Media, Theatre, Speech & Dance, Ethnic Studies, Literary Arts, the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, and the Cogut Center for the Humanities. Our doctoral and master's programs in Literatures and Cultures in English offer professional training to approximately 40 graduate students a year in literary research, theory, criticism, the teaching of literature, and the teaching of writing. The Brown English Department is also the home of Novel, one of the leading professional journals devoted to the study of narrative fiction.
The English Department at Brown sponsors a wide range of lectures, including the David H. Hirsch Memorial Lecture Series in American Literature. We host visiting scholars from around the world who come to study with Brown faculty and to conduct research in the renowned special collections of our libraries. Scholars working in areas I and II especially take advantage of resources housed in the John Carter Brown and the John Hay Libraries.
