Ad Reinhardt
The Department of English Language and Literature is recognized as one of the top English departments in the nation. Serving as an extraordinary center of creativity, inquiry, and discovery with a proud tradition of leadership in scholarship and teaching. With over seventeen thousand alumni, eight hundred active students and nearly three hundred full-time faculty members, lecturers, and graduate student instructors, the Department offers not only opportunities for study of all aspects of English language and its literature, but also a well-developed, diverse, and active community within the University. Its courses include American Jewish Literature, Literature of the Holocaust and Yiddish Literature in translation.