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14 unusual facts about English literature


Albena Bakratcheva

Albena Bakratcheva received her master's degree in Bulgarian and English literature from the St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia in 1984.

Bram Dijkstra

Bram Dijkstra (born 5 July 1938) is a retired professor of English literature and the author of seven books on literary and artistic subjects.

David Scott Mitchell

He began to build up a fine library of English literature, specializing in poetry and sixteenth and seventeenth century books.

Francis March

March applied the methods of studying the Latin and Greek classics towards the study of English literature, and led the way for the first scientific study of the English language.

Jack Bristow

She took the name Laura Bristow and built a cover as an English literature professor.

Jeremy Dimmick

He gave up acting at the age of 17 to concentrate on music and academia, and now researches and teaches medieval English literature.

Kate Sanborn

She taught English literature in several places, and was a professor at Smith College in that subject for several years, resigning in 1886 in order to follow literary pursuits in New York City.

Mary Monck

By her own application she acquired a knowledge of the Latin, Italian, and Spanish languages, and read much English literature.

Rebecca Wheatley

Wheatley grew up in Teddington, Middlesex, where she went to St Catherine's convent school, before gaining her BA in English literature from the University of Wales, Lampeter.

Robin Good and His Not-So-Merry Men

Robin Good and His Not-So-Merry Men is the 37th VeggieTales episode, based on the classic English story Robin Hood.

Ronnie Knox

He read English literature by the hour, stretched out on a cot or in his worn out twelve-year-old car.

School of English

Various English literature university departments or programs are known as the School of English.

Sous le sable

Marie, happily married to Jean for 25 years, is a lecturer in English literature at a Paris university.

Takako Shimazu

Princess Takako graduated from Gakushuin University Women's College with a degree in English literature in March 1957.


Abhishek Chaubey

He completed his tenth standard from St. Xavier's School, Ranchi in the year 1 993, completed 12th from Siva Sivani Public School, Hyderabad in the year 1995, and then did his graduation in English literature from Hindu College, New Delhi in the year 1998.

André Brink

These writers sought to use Afrikaans as a language to speak against the apartheid government, and also to bring into Afrikaans literature the influence of contemporary English and French trends.

Anthony Julius

Julius studied English literature at Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating in 1977 with a first class degree, and completed a Ph.D. in English literature at University College London under the novelist and academic Dan Jacobson.

Anthony M. Esolen

Anthony M. Esolen is a professor of English at Providence College and translator of classic works, as well as writer for magazines including the Claremont Review of Books and Touchstone Magazine, of which he is a senior editor.

Bo White

He plays Jason, a divorced photographer, who meets a lonely English Literature teacher David (Robert Joel) during New York's 1973 Gay Pride celebration in the second half of the film and show the potential to form a long term relationship.

C. P. Surendran

Born to Malayalam writer and rationalist Pavanan and Parvathy, C. P. Surendran received his M.A. in English Literature from Delhi University, Delhi and taught for short while at Calicut University before working as journalist in Bombay for many English newspapers including the The Times of India, Times Sunday Review, Bombay Times besides others.

Cyrillization

Cyrillization is analogous to romanization, when words from a non-Latin-script-using language are rendered in the Latin alphabet for use e.g. in English, German, or Francophone literature.

D. Quentin Miller

Quentin Miller (born 1967) is a professor of the English language and literature at Suffolk University in Boston.

David Gascoyne

These publications, together with his 1935 A Short Survey of Surrealism and his work on the 1936 London International Surrealist Exhibition, which he helped to organise, made him one of a small group of English surrealists that included Hugh Sykes Davies and Roger Roughton.

Désirée Miloshevic

Miloshevic studied English Literature at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology before starting her internet career at the newly formed British service provider Demon Internet in 1993.

Dublin School

Courses include chemistry, biology, marine biology, algebra, pre-calculus, calculus, statistics, Spanish, French, Latin, Mandarin, world history, American history, economics and English, various AP courses, and various electives in each category.

Edith Birkhead

This work described the fascination with supernatural fiction in English literature from the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto in 1764 to Charles Maturin's 'Melmoth the Wanderer' in 1820 on to modern times.

Fashionable novel

Fashionable novels, also called silver fork novels, were a 19th-century genre of English literature that depicted the lives of the upper class.

Frank Parker Day

Returning to Canada, he embarked on an academic career, teaching English at the University of New Brunswick, before being appointed president of Union College in Schenectady, New York.

Happy Palace Grammar School

Subjects taught at HPGS include Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, Computer Studies, Pakistan Studies, Urdu, Islamic Studies, English Literature, Economics, Accounting, Business Studies, Environmental Studies, Sociology, English Language, Art & Design, Additional Mathematics and Economics.

Ian Peacock

After graduating with a first in English Literature, he presented and produced for BBC Radio Cambridgeshire and went on to make documentaries and features for BBC network radio.

James Kendall Hosmer

From 1872 to 1874, he occupied the chair of English and German literature in the University of Missouri, and in 1874 was elected to a similar professorship in Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

James Main Dixon

From 1892 to 1901 he was professor of English literature at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. In 1903–1904 he was president of Columbia College, in Milton, Oregon.

Leslie Hall Pinder

Born in Elrose, Saskatchewan, she earned a B.A. in English literature from the University of Saskatchewan and Dalhousie University in 1968.

Love Is a Losing Game

In 2008, final year English Literature students at Cambridge University were asked to analyse lyrics to this song, as well as lyrics by Sir Walter Raleigh, Bob Dylan and Billie Holiday, as part of their end of year examinations in 'Practical Criticism'.

Mark M. Ford

In 1976 Ford enlisted in the Peace Corps and spent two years in Africa teaching English literature and philosophy at the University of Chad in Ndjamena.

New Zealand literature

Erewhon, a novel set in New Zealand and written by Samuel Butler as a result of a stay in New Zealand, arguably belongs primarily to English literature.

Notes on Novelists

The book collected essays that James had written over the preceding two decades on French, Italian, English and American writers.

P. H. Newby

Newby was released from military service in December 1942, and then taught English Literature at King Fouad University in Cairo until 1946.

Poughkeepsie High School

The school offers AP courses in the following subjects: Biology, Calculus AB, English Literature, French Language, Spanish Language, and United States History.

Raymond J. Smith

He taught English literature at the University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario and New York University until 1980, when he left teaching for publishing.

Richard Alexander Arnold

Richard Alexander Arnold is the Eminent Professor and Chair of English at Alfaisal University and an author and editor specializing in rhetoric, English literature, Canadian literature, and Medieval literature (focusing on Chaucer, John Milton, William Blake, Samuel Johnson, and Alexander Pope).

Samer Raimouny

Born in Damascus to philanthropic Jordanian Noblesse oblige, his father, an industrialist and a now retired-Senator for Jerash Governorate in northern Jordan, his mother is an English Literature teacher from the city of as-Salt.

Sundarayya Vignana Kendram

The library houses more than 2,500,000 items of 19th and 20th century Telugu, Urdu and English literature.

T. Ramachandran

He graduated in zoology from St. Albert's College, Kochi (old spelling: Cochin), but, did his masters in English Literature from Sacred Heart College, also in Kochi.

T. S. Balakrishna Sastrigal

During his days in college, Balakrishna Sastrigal was proficient in English literature and acted in a few Shakespeare plays.

William Rivers Pitt

He was educated in English literature at Holy Cross College, a Catholic college in Massachusetts, and after graduation spent two years in San Francisco doing law-related work.