English

At the core of the liberal arts, the study of literature illuminates the many ways of being human and of being alive in our world.

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  Student Fellows on Why Their Research Matters

  Each summer at Bowdoin, around two hundred students receive fellowships from the College to conduct independent, faculty-mentored research in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
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  Shakespeare’s Unique Approach to Science, Nature, and Religion

  Professor Aaron Kitch takes a fresh look at William Shakespeare in his latest book, tracing the influence of classical, medieval, and early modern science on the playwright. Shakespeare maintained a wide-ranging interest in different forms of “natural philosophy,” which combined what we now call science, philosophy, and religion.
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  Life Imitating Art, Imitating Life

  Author Elise Juska ’95 visits campus on Reunion Weekend to discuss her latest novel, Reunion, a “snapshot of mid-life” that follows three friends at their twenty-fifth college reunion. The setting is a fictional college in midcoast Maine.

Creative Writing

Honors Projects

• Theater and Dance
• Africana Studies
• Asian Studies
• Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies
• Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
• Environmental Studies
• Cinema Studies
• Digital and Computational Studies