English

Judith Butler to join faculty in 2012

Feminist theorist Judith Butler will be joining the English and comparative literature department as a visiting professor.

By Amber Tunnell | Nov 11 04:21 am ET

If I could teach them English

I couldn’t help but think of all the times I’d taught English for chump change, how I always grumbled about how I hated to do it.

By Amin Ghadimi | Apr 4 07:47 pm ET

Get some (Core) class

All Columbia undergraduates have to take them—the required classes that constitute our early years. But do they go on to constitute part of us? This week, four students assess the foundations of our education. Jennifer Fearon examines what it means to re-read classics in Barnard’s First-Year English, Joseph Rozenshtein writes off University Writing, Sarah Ngu suggests it simply needs a few edits, and Neil Fitzpatrick merges the practical and the pedantic in his position on Literature Humanities.

By Sarah Ngu, Jennifer Fearon, Joseph Rozenshtein, and Neil FitzPatrick | Nov 15 10:45 pm ET

Broadening the discussion

While I certainly do not believe that “strong, beautiful, Barnard women” need their hands held as they compose their first collegiate research papers, I do feel that First-Year English goes too far in the opposite direction.

By Jennifer Fearon | Nov 15 06:13 pm ET

Students, Faculty Celebrate Barnard Authors

A crowd of readers gathered to hear award-winning authors Mary Gordon, BC ’71, Julia Leigh, and Sigrid Nunez, BC ’72, read in Sulzberger Parlor Tuesday night.

By Claire Stern | Oct 17 03:28 am ET

In Communication Struggles, Words Often Fail Us

Sometimes words just fail us.

By Chloe Smith | Apr 7 03:31 am ET

International Students Give English Language Program Mixed Reviews

After coming through the gauntlet of midterms and spending much of spring break in a state of acute relief and recovery, it occurred to me that, as challenging as being a full-time Columbia student

By Chloe Smith | Mar 24 03:05 am ET

A Critical Look at Critical Reading, Critical Writing

As an undergraduate at a college that fetishizes requirements—batteries upon batteries for each student, major, and program of study regardless of AP score, entrance exam, or other metric of prior

By Chris Morris-Lent | Feb 25 09:04 pm ET

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