Modern writers like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck are well known in American literary circles. These writers are often included in high school English and ...

The English Department at UB has a long tradition of producing innovative work in medieval and early-modern studies. We aim to train students in the historical and textual fundamentals of the period ...

ALTHOUGH Tokyo is, naturally, the literary center of Japan, one of the Meccas of modern Japanese literature is a small town called Magome, in a mountain valley some hundred and fifty miles west of the ...

We study the rich and complex traditions of eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century Spanish literature and culture from a variety of historical and intellectual perspectives. While ...

This introductory course focuses on the cultural syncretism and the global diversity of Jewish experience. It provides a comparative understanding of Jewish culture from antiquity to the present, ...

Dr. Llewellyn’s research focuses on didactic and satirical literature in early modern France and on women as authors and as literary figures during that era. In addition to early modern literature, Dr ...

The past few decades have seen a dramatic shift in how the relationship between humans and animals is portrayed in modern fiction, writes Assistant Professor of English Hilary Thompson, in her latest ...

Watching the headlines over the past month and reflecting, I can’t help but think that we’re in an era of superstar authors. The latest to swallow the limelight is Haruki Murakami, whose The City and ...

Nawadegyi and Natshinnaung were our great poets of the Toungoo dynasties, and the pandit Binnyadala has left us an exciting prose chronicle of the long struggle between the Burmese King of Ava and the ...

Classic literature has long served as inspiration for artists in different fields, and the world of cinema is no exception. The intersection of classic elements and modern twists helps pay homage to ...

The Bates Film Festival might at first seem like any other film festival. There are screenings, facilitated panel discussions, and featured guests. Running May 12-17,… ...

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture is a peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary cultural studies journal. In addition to literary studies, MCLC publishes on a broad range of subjects from film to popular ...