English and World Literature

Through literature we experience other lives and learn to read our own as we grapple with the social and ethical implications of the knowledge we acquire. We learn those lessons best when the literature we study includes the aspirations, failures and accomplishments of diverse peoples of all colors and cultures. The Pitzer English and World Literature major is intended to increase learning and writing skills through the systematic study, recovery, and appreciation of the best imaginative verse and prose, in worldwide English mainly but also in literatures in translation-works that have helped to spawn and continue to influence theoretical approaches to other disciplines. Some English and World Literature concentrators pursue double majors, using literature as a testing ground for their second discipline, which in turn, is a key to one of the many doors of literature itself.

Pitzer Advisors : Sumangala Bhattacharya, Laura Harris, Ntongela Masilela, Edith Vasquez, Al Wachtel