For example, recent college grads with a degree in architecture have a 13.9% unemployment rate, while English literature majors had a 9.2% rate, according to a study conducted by Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workplace.
He plans to develop his interest in English literature and join a bird watching society while he is at university.
After gaining a degree in English Literature from the University of London, Adrian planned to teach English abroad, but a broken leg put an end to both that and an only slightly promising goalkeeping career.
Always a striver, Alemany completed college in three years, majoring in English literature with an eye on a legal career.
For in addition to his higher-profile roles as a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University and as a controversial commentator on Middle Eastern and international politics, Said was music critic at America's foremost left-leaning political weekly, the Nation, from 1986 until his death in 2003.
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Some are waking up to the reality that a poly-sci, English Literature or history degree was not, perhaps, a good investment.
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"I loved the film, getting to know David O Russell has been great, but as a novelist and as a former English teacher who loves literature, part of the fun of reading a novel is creating that world in your mind, " says Quick.
Sheffield-born Gorman is currently studying for 'A' levels in English Literature, Art and Physical Education in lower sixth form at Repton School after winning a scholarship.
Pericles Lewis, a professor of English and comparative literature at Yale, was tapped Wednesday to head Yale-NUS as president, while a professor from the National University of Singapore, Lai Choy Heng, was named vice president.
Wanna, a professor of English literature and Thai studies at Bangkok's Kasetsart University.
After the war, he returned to college and graduated from the University of Kansas in 1947 with a degree in English literature.
She is currently completing a degree in English literature studying, among other books, George Orwell's Animal Farm and William Golding's Lord of the Flies.
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My male high school journalism teacher taught me to write and most of my female English teachers gave me a love of literature that is one of the mainstays of my spiritual life to this day.
She graduated from Florida State University with a bachelor of arts in English literature.
Finally, take the scenic route along the back of Merton College, where Tolkien was a professor of English language and literature between 1945 and 1959 after leaving Pembroke.
Mr. Lewis, a professor of English and comparative literature at Yale until he was named president of the new college in May, said the new venture has received assurances from the Singapore government regarding academic freedom.
D. in English literature, but his education in ancestral science is a patchwork.
Specific marks are being allocated for good spelling, punctuation and grammar - a change that affects exams in English literature, geography, history and religious studies taken since January this year.
Initially he pursued a literary rather than a financial path: a BA in English followed by an MA in American Literature from the University of North Carolina.
The English literature lecturer discovered the piece in February, after being asked to study a collection of papers bought by a New Zealand library.
As part of my report for the Today programme I'm also speaking to a teacher at another school who is worried that technology is a distraction rather than an aid for pupils in her English literature lessons.
Mr Matthews, who is studying English and European literature at Anglia Polytechnic University, turned himself in to police after a newspaper photograph pictured him hanging from the Churchill statue.
These writers (and others) gathered in London for a photograph that would freeze-frame the state of Indian literature in English.
The Taiping Uprising has inspired an enormous literature in Chinese and a much smaller but still significant amount of writing in English.
Conversations about schoolwork take on new zest when, rather than a specific work of literature or history, you are wrestling with the English language itself, sometimes pinned down by an immigrant youth, and sometimes throwing and clobbering the youth instead.
And I have a funny feeling that the Committee for Literature will continue to focus on non-English, non-European works so the other parts of the universe get a little credit, too.
On a recent trip to India, I spent a few days in Chennai (formerly Madras, the city where Macaulay landed), where the ubiquity of English-language bookstores testifies to a kind of symbiotic relationship with Anglo-American enthusiasm for Indian literature.
Briefly: I quit English and literature and the people who wrote it for good, I thought and became a packaging-science major.
For a country that considers itself the cradle of erotic literature, the seduction of French readers by the English author Erika Leonard James, seems an aberration.
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