Department of English - Washington University in St. Louis

The English Department at Washington University is one of the most highly acclaimed departments in t Literature is central to the human quest for meaning.

It’s a unique vehicle for finding ourselves, for navigating our course in an often confusing and complex world. Because it speaks to our imagination, literature allows us to approach the moral, ethical, social, and political dilemmas of the human situation in an integrated way. The beautiful and the well-argued, the felt and the reasoned, the actual and the possible, the message and the medium: st  ...