专业描述

The Department of English at New York University studies and teaches English-language literature from the variety of periods and places in which it has been produced. Our faculty is known for its broad view of the discipline: we understand "literature" to denote writing in all media, and hold that its study includes the manner in which texts have been produced, re-produced, circulated, and read, together with the modes of classification and the definitions of taste and enjoyment that have historically been used to describe and evaluate them