The English Department ranked first in satisfaction among the largest concentrations in the annual exit surveys completed in May.

Harvard students hoping to follow in the footsteps of small-screen greats find creative outlets in extracurriculars

“To find a novelist with such nuance and precision, one would perhaps need to return to Dickens or James.”

Theater confronts philosophical issues of artistic representation.

The English Department is considering closing or reducing the hours of its departmental library on Widener’s third floor in an effort to cut departmental spending.

Scholars at Harvard and beyond investigate how writers and readers are adapting to the digital age.

The English department on Tuesday voted unanimously to begin the search for a tenure-track professor of contemporary American literature who specializes in Asian-American studies.

Given the preponderance in recent years of the Harvard tell-all—Keith A. Gessen’s ’97 All the Sad Young Literary Men, Nick McDonnell’s '06-'07 An Expensive Education, Ross G. Douthat’s ’02 (non-fictional) Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class, to name a few—it should come as no surprise that another of these masterpieces is about to hit the shelves.

In the first year of the English department’s new curriculum, students and administrators are still reflecting on the revamped program.

Alexis de Tocqueville is famously taught in American middle schools and high schools as the Frenchman who loved America and who wrote the treatise “Democracy in America” in the mid-19th century.