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All qualified students, and especially those who plan to attend graduate school, are urged to apply for admission to the English Honors Program. Candidates are expected to submit a personal statement and provide the name of at least one faculty member who will recommend them to the program. On the basis of the candidate’s statement, faculty recommendation and grades in English courses the Honors Committee decides whether a candidate is qualified for honors work.
Robert Higney is an Assistant Professor of English at CCNY. He teaches courses in the history of the novel, modernism, twentieth-century British literature and contemporary fiction. His work has appeared in journals including Modernism/modernity, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, and Contemporary Literature, and he is finishing a book on modern novelists and the idea of “the institution.” His received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 2014.
One of the largest as well as most important academic departments at CCNY, the Department of English, which includes Comparative Literature, offers a wide variety of courses for its undergraduate and graduate degrees from medieval to modern. Students may choose classes ranging from one-author courses on Milton, Melville or Shakespeare to theme courses on Trauma and Literature, Caribbean Spirits-Colonial Ghosts or the Poetry of Jazz. The Department’s creative writing courses include fiction, poetry and drama for the beginner as well as those more advanced. With a long and distinguished as well as forward-looking tradition, the Department boasts over 100 full and part-time faculty members, including a number with international reputations.