With rich and varied literary and writing courses, this program transforms students into close readers, insightful critics, and superior writers. Students analyze classical, medieval, British, American, Irish, African American, and modern literature; may select from a range of courses in major authors, special topics, or the practice of journalism; and try their hands at composing plays, songs, poems, and short stories under the tutelage of regular professors as well as noted visiting writers.
Professor Engel had an essay published in the recent issue of the Sewanee Theological Review on “C.S. Lewis as Medieval and Renaissance Scholar,” as well a book review in Seventeenth-Century News on The Making of the English Gardener, 1560-1660 (Yale University Press).
Engel's new book, ,Early Modern Poetics in Melville and Poe, uncovers the tell-tale presence of Renaissance allegory and baroque emblems in the works of Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe.
Professor William Engel will be presenting two papers abroad: "Locative Memory in The Winter's Tale," at the annual meeting of the Société Française Shakespeare in Paris during Spring Recess, and the other on “Poe and ‘the grandeur of old Rome’" at the Conversazioni seminar held this June in Florence.
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