Faculty Bookshelf
By Martha Rust
The Department of English at New York University promotes the rigorous study of English-language literature from the variety of periods and places in which it has been produced. Understanding "literature" to encompass such matters as textual production and circulation, societal reading practices, generic differentiation, and aesthetic attitudes--as well as discrete bodies of work by recognized authors--the Department strives to elucidate literary significance in all its manifestations. Read more
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at New York University and the New York Public Library
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Ongoing graduate-faculty working groups, focusing on a broad range of historical periods and critical approaches.
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Last fall's Lost New York conference kicked off this project, which will make NYU a center for the study of writing by and about New Yorkers.
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The Postcolonial Studies Project acts as the dynamic center for a wide range of activities in Postcolonial Studies at NYU.