But if reading a lot of novels gave you exceptional empathy university English departments should be filled with the most compassionate and generous-minded of souls, and, so far, they are not.
"I think he's doing a lot of positive, progressive, constructive work right now, " said Brown University English professor William Keach, the first member of the university's faculty to sign the statement of support.
The Georgetown University English graduate was a story consultant on the 2009 documentary "American Harmony, " about competitive barbershop quartet singing, and produced the recent Discovery Channel program "Under Siege, " about terrorism and smuggling across the U.S.-Canada border as well the History Channel series "Madhouse, " on modified race-car drivers in North Carolina.
The Scots, fumes Charles Jones, a professor of English language at Edinburgh University, have been speaking English for just as long as those south of the border.
Digital crime-fighters plan to use the same techniques the researchers used to identify students at Carnegie Mellon University to identify English rioters.
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Researchers tracked the psychological well-being of 10, 000 people aged 50 to 100 over nine years as part of the university's English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.
The University of Utah English professor was in her mid-30s, single and figured even if she met someone immediately it might be a couple years before she'd feel comfortable having a child with that man.
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.
After graduating in 1964, he spent a year on scholarship at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and then began work toward a doctorate in English at the University of Chicago.
Brian-Anthony Garrison is a student at NC State University, majoring in English with a language, writing and rhetoric concentration.
Steering clear of Northwestern University's tweedy English department, he graduated in 1937 in anthropology and sociology and later went to work for the Encyclopedia Britannica.
And Dr George Garnett, a history lecturer at Oxford University, specialising in English history in the 10-13th Centuries, says that while Magna Carta has proved to be enormously influential, that wasn't its original intention.
Toby Rundle, from Milton, was studying Classics and English at Oxford University's Lady Margaret Hall when he died.
The Professor of English at the University of Virginia has created an audio archive of Faulkner reading and lecturing.
One of his first jobs out of school (he majored in film and English at Wesleyan University) was directing commercials.
Mr. Nelson is a professor of English at the University of Illinois and president of the American Association of University Professors.
After a brief spell as Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester, Hoggart was offered a chair at the University of Birmingham.
Also attending is our colleague, David English, a University of Missouri Law School professor, and the gold standard of meeting frugality.
For this he has been taken to task by Terry Eagleton, a professor of English at Oxford University and a leading exponent of politically committed criticism.
It has spent lavishly on transport, health care and education: Scottish university students pay less than English ones, and oldsters are cared for free of charge.
Even now, Sheffield University's Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language, home of the three editors of this dictionary, is recording a newly dying trade, mining.
She started out working part time behind a bar while studying English at Edinburgh University, and, like him, fell in love with the trade and is now an area manager.
Boyle, who was accused of dumbing down Radio 4, attended a comprehensive school in Glasgow before gaining a first class degree in English at the University of Strathclyde, and then completing an MA on Charles Dickens.
Jay Watson, Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies and Professor of English at the University of Mississippi, said many scholars are hoping the Faulkner papers remain in the public domain, especially those recently discovered and unpublished.
The Poetry House is part of the university's School of English whose staff include poets Don Paterson, Kathleen Jamie, Douglas Dunn, Robert Crawford and John Burnside, amongst them winners of the Whitbread Prize, the T.
During my visit to the "Genius Language School, " where university students go for professional English tutoring, I asked the assembled round table whether they were happy that Obama came to visit and whether they considered America a friend.
More damaging is the fact that the devolved Scots now enjoy important perks, such as some paid-for medicines and (soon) free university education, that the English don't preferential treatment that violates a deep if illogical English expectation that government should treat everyone everywhere the same.
The UK Border Agency had found students at the university without any right to remain in the UK, some without adequate English language skills and claimed that the university was failing to monitor the attendance of overseas students.
At age 20 he left to attend Fudan University in Shanghai, majoring in English and American literature.
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