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Definition of Department of english
1. Noun. The academic department responsible for teaching English and American literature.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Department Of English
Literary usage of Department of english
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1918)
"By Members of the Department of English and Comparative Literature in Columbia
University. Edited by Brander Matthews and Ashley Horace Thorndike. New York. ..."
2. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1894)
"Anglo-Saxon is taught in the department of English Language and Rhetoric; and
also, by Dr. Helen L. Webster, in the department of Comparative Philology. ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"At Columbia University a department of English was first established in 1899 by
assigning to it the professor of English literature, the professor of ..."