Medieval and Early Modern British Literary Studies - Cornell University

Medieval and Early Modern British Literary Studies from Cornell University is a Campus Bachelor Medieval and Renaissance Studies degree that prepares you for a Science career. The Cornell English Department maintains a tradition of strength and innovation in the earlier historical periods of British literary studies . Undergraduates choose from a full offering of courses in all the historical periods of early modern British literature, including courses on Shakespeare at all levels of the undergraduate curriculum. Faculty interests range widely from cultural studies and political criticism to feminist theory and queer theory, and from bibliographical and textual criticism to various models of formalist analysis. Graduate students specializing in the Medieval period have the opportunity to study with a substantial cohort of students in other fields, through links with the active, interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Medieval Studies . Such students also have at hand major and up-to-date library collections of sources and critical studies in Old English, Middle English, Latin, and other medieval languages and literatures, in manuscript, print, and on-line form; the Cornell University library is especially noted for its large array of microfilmed collections of medieval British literary and historical manuscripts, and for its special collections in Dante, Petrarch, and Icelandic materials, the last--the Fiske Icelandic Collection--the largest outside of Iceland. View more details on Cornell University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Medieval and Renaissance Studies courses.