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University of Pittsburgh Pitt Bar links Pitt Home Dietrich School English About Undergraduate Graduate People Projects and Collaborations News & Events Prospective Students Search The English Sites Home Page (Content does not show) -- About the Image About the Image About the Image About the Image About the Image About A program committed to imaginative, interdisciplinary, and theoretical engagement with anglophone literatures in all their historical, formal, generic, and global diversity. More News & Events Three Literature Majors Win Fall 2019 Scholarships Read more > Literature Faculty Member wins Year of Creativity Grant Professor Zach Horton won a Year of Creativity grant to support his project of reverse engineering the first video game console, the 1972 "Odyssey," with the assistance of undergraduates working in Pitt's Vibrant Media Lab. Read more > Pitt Literature Major Emma Wolinsky Hosts Podcast Working with faculty members in English and Nursing, Emma Wolinsky presents the podcast "Remains to be Seen," which examines bodies healthy and ill, living and dead, fictional and factual. Wolinsky is a pre-med student and Honors College Brackenridge Fellow who brings a unique perspective to this crossroads of the health professions and the humanities. Read more > Popular English Literature Faculty Member Wins 2019 Bellet Teaching Award Geoff Glover was selected as one of three winners of this year's prestigious Bellet teaching award. Glover, who teaches popular literature classes like Introduction to Science Fiction, called the award... Read more > Lit Major Wins Fulbright Pitt literature major Ethan Moser has won a Fulbright Summer Gaeltacht Award to study Irish abroad this Summer. Read more > Unusual Classes: Students Learn Pittsburgh’s Secrets Firsthand On the site of the Civil War’s worst single day of civilian casualties — Arsenal Park in Lawrenceville, where a munitions factory exploded on Sept. 17, 1862. Read more > English Literature Graduate Studies in Dublin Esther Reilly reads a 1622 First Folio edition of Shakespeare's works in the Early Printed Books room of Trinity College, Dublin! Esther graduated with an English Literature major last June, and she is currently pursuing her M.Phil. in Children’s Literature at Trinity College. Zach Horton and Undergraduates Work in Pitt's Vibrant Media Lab English faculty member Zach Horton is reverse engineering the first video game console, the 1972 "Odyssey," with the assistance of undergraduates working in Pitt's Vibrant Media Lab. Literature Major The Literature major includes exciting concentrations in areas such as the Invention of Literature; Media and Technology; English for the World; Environment, Science, and Culture; and Children and Culture. Senior Thesis Option Explore the Senior Thesis Option for Literature Majors See all News & Events Explore English Literature Faculty Awards and Honors Research and Reading Groups Undergraduate Literature Conference Recent Faculty Books Mikhail Bakhtin: Rhetoric, Poetics, Dialogics, Rhetoricality Don Bialostosky Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of American and Spanish Literatures Gayle Rogers Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities: Methods, Reflections, and Approaches to the Global South Shalini Puri Caribbean Military Encounters Shalini Puri Modernism: Evolution of an Idea (New Modernisms) Gayle Rogers How to Play a Poem Don Bialostosky Literature in the Making: A History of U.S. Literary Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century Nancy Glazener Schooling New Media Tyler Bickford Aspects of Strangers Piotr Gwiazda The Critics and the Prioress: Criticism, Antisemitism, and Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale Hannah Johnson I have always imagined Paradise will be a kind of library. Borges Literature is news that stays news. Pound Politics in a work of literature is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert. Stendhal I can hardly describe to you the effect of these books. They produced in me an infinity of new images and feelings, that sometimes raised me to ecstasy, but more frequently sunk me into the lowest dejection. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein’s Monster All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. Hemingway ’Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart. Emerson Every allegedly great age is an age of translations. Pound Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart. Rushdie We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. Toni Morrison, Nobel Acceptance Speech Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion. Eliot It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. Thoreau If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way? Emily Dickinson Poetry makes nothing happen. Auden Poetry Fetter’d, Fetters the Human Race! Nations are Destroy’d, or Flourish, in proportion as Their Poetry Painting and Music, are Destroy’d or Flourish! Blake On or about December 1910, human character changed. Woolf It is only a novel… or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language. Austen There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page of prancing Poetry Emily Dickinson Contact Us 412-624-6506 University of Pittsburgh Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Department of English 526 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Follow Us Copyright 2020 Send feedback about this site...