ENGLISH

Professors: Henry Abelove,Tony Connor, George R. Creeger, Ann duCille, Gertrude R. Hughes (Chair), Richard M. Ohmann, Gayle Pemberton, Joseph W. Reed, Phyllis Rose, Richard Slotkin, William Stowe, Khachig Tololyan, Alfred Turco, Jr.

Adjunct Professors: Annie Dillard, Kit Reed

Associate Professors: Christina Crosby, Harris Friedberg, Joel Pfister, Ashraf Rushdy

Assistant Professors: Karen Bock, Indira Karamcheti, Natasha Korda, Sean McCann

Visiting Assistant Professors: Laura Ciolkowski, David Weisberg

Adjunct Associate Professor: Anne F. Greene

Visiting Instructor: Peter Pach

Visiting Writer: Tom Drury

English as a Second Language Instructor: Alice Hadler

FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS

Students with Advanced Placement scores of 4 or 5 in either English literature or English composition will automatically receive University credit for two courses. No extra credit is available for taking both tests, however, nor may these credits be counted toward an English major. Students who wish to work on their writing should consider English courses numbered 102-109 and those First-Year Initiative courses that stress writing. First-year students interested in literature should consider courses numbered 180-199. In addition, courses numbered 200 and above may admit some freshmen.

MAJOR PROGRAM

Students considering majoring in English should read

the pamphlet on that subject, available in the departmental office. Potential majors must take English 201 while they are sophomores. Students who have taken the course and received a grade of B- or better will be admitted as regular majors during the spring term of their sophomore year. Students who take the course during that term will be admitted provisionally, pending the receipt of a grade of B- or better.

Each student, in consultation with an adviser, will work out an individual major program consisting of English 201 and at least nine additional courses, not including senior thesis tutorials. Ordinarily, all of these courses must be numbered 200 or above, but students interested in writing may count two writing courses from the 160s and 170s. Two related upper-level courses from outside the department may also be counted toward the minimum of ten, but prior approval from the student's adviser is required. Appropriate credits transferred from other institutions may also be counted, but students must take at least five courses from this department before graduation. Of the ten courses required for graduation, two must deal with English or American literature before 1800, and two must be concerned with "historicity," the interaction between historical and social processes and culture. (One of the "historicity" courses may also count as pre-1800; one must be post-1800.) In addition, all majors must take one course in theory. Finally, the department requires majors to focus at least three of the nine courses in an area of concentration chosen in consultation with the major adviser. This area of interest will ordinarily influence the student's selection of extradepart-mental courses and of a thesis topic, should the student qualify and choose to do one.

The bachelor's degree with Honors in English is awarded on the basis of an outstanding academic record and an honors thesis written during the senior year. Students are eligible to write a thesis if they have attained an average of A- or better in six courses that count toward the major and have completed at least two courses relevant to the proposed thesis topic.