Why Study Literature?
Literature has a way of transporting its readers across oceans and eras in a personal and intimate journey. Literary exploration as a form of cross-cultural understanding is key to our program.
Why Study English and World Literatures at MMC?
If you want your studies of English and World Literatures to be immersed in literary history and enriched by once-in-a-lifetime cultural events, networking, and internship opportunities, then the question is: Why go anywhere other than NYC? New York City bursts with literary history and culture — from the Cloisters Museum and the Bowery Poetry Club, to the New York Public Library and Edgar Allen Poe Cottage.
Students are invited to draw connections to other creative fields—art, dance, music, and theatre—as well as subjects that inform both writers and readers: social justice, economics, history, political science, psychology, and sociology. In other words, like the literature that they read, our students’ studies never exist in a vacuum. We stress critical reading and writing, developing skills that will serve students well in any professional capacity from law to journalism.
What You Will Learn
The Literature Concentration at MMC goes beyond the usual reading lists with its global, cross-cultural approach. The program also goes beyond simply reading: our students analyze, interpret, discuss, and debate the meaning of compelling texts, classic and contemporary.
Program Highlights
Literary New York
New York City bursts with literary history and culture — from Shakespeare in the Park and the Public Theater to the New York Public Library and Strand Bookstore in the East Village.
It’s a city where the streets offer a map of literary history filled with places from which classics sprang. The literary past of New York City is only surpassed by its present— find writing, performance, and cultural events any night of the week.
Career Readiness
Joint MS Program with Pace
The Carson Review
The mark of a thriving undergraduate creative writing program is in the eminence of its student literary magazine: The Carson Review is Marymount Manhattan College’s creative writing journal, published once a year in the spring.
