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Letter from the Chair
From the leafy, historic Bronx Rose Hill campus to the heart of New York City's cultural scene at Lincoln Center, English at Fordham is a central part of the University's intellectual life, with an undergraduate major and minors and graduate degree programs including the literature M.A., M.A. with a writing concentration, and a fully funded Ph.D. The Department offers courses in composition, writing, literature (up to the advanced doctoral level), dissertation workshops, graduate teaching preparation, and a pedagogy practicum. Our core faculty is comprised of over 40 full-time members who are productive scholars in fields from Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman to Postcolonial and Postmodern literature and theories; in addition, the full-time faculty is regularly complemented by specialist writers-in-residence and visiting professors.

The English Department sponsors and takes part in a number of co-curricular events, interdisciplinary initiatives, and colloquiae throughout the year and fosters a growing creative writing community. We welcome your interest in English at Fordham.

Best,

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HIGHLIGHTS
 
Professor
Leonard Cassuto's
Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Fiction is published, October 2008


"'Hard-Boiled Sentimentality'
should stimulate discussion among academics and general readers, framing,
as it does, a common ground between tough men who are lambs underneath
and cozy women
with knitting-needle 
nerves of steel."
—Sarah Weinman,
L.A. Times
 
UPCOMING EVENTS
 
Fordham University's Manhattan Lincoln Center Campus is home to this program, which has fostered the appreciation, creation, and study of poetry since its inception in 1992.

Check back with us 
for the Spring 2009 POL 
Reading Series schedule.


Take me to Poets Out Loud...



WRITING WEDNESDAYS
FALL 2008
Informal gatherings of Fordham’s Creative Writing Community: 
Undergrads, Grads, Faculty, and Alumni are all welcome!

DECEMBER 3 - 4:00-5:30 PM
JAMES BRALY
STORYTELLING & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

James Braly is just coming off a 
brilliant run off-Broadway with
Life in a Marital Institution
He has performed on NPR, has 
been featured on the 
TNT National Story Tour, and has 
won many prizes for storytelling.

Lincoln Center
113 W 60 St (@ Columbus)
Leon Lowenstein,
South Lounge


For more information on the
Writing Wednesdays series
 or to be added to the
creative writing mailing list, email: crwriting@fordham.edu.


 
 
Romanticism's
Cultures
of Performance

An Interdisciplinary Colloquium
Lincoln Center Campus
Fordham University
April 24th, 2009

Talks by:
Angela Esterhammer,
University of Zurich
Lawrence Kramer,
Fordham University
Judith Pascoe,
University of Iowa

Respondent and Moderator:
Peter Manning,
Stony Brook University

For information or registration,
please contact
Sarah Zimmerman or John Bugg.
 

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