Eleanor Johnson is a professor in the English and Comparative literature department at Columbia University who attributes a growing misuse of language to the explosion of electronic communication.
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Oxford came top for Englishlanguageandliterature, philosophy, modern languages and geography in the QS World University Rankings by subject.
Finally, take the scenic route along the back of Merton College, where Tolkien was a professor of Englishlanguageandliterature between 1945 and 1959 after leaving Pembroke.
Professor Nigel Leask, regius professor of EnglishLanguageandLiterature at the University of Glasgow, said Burns read widely in the contemporary literature on the subject while he was being trained.