The Field

We are a thriving community of readers, writers, thinkers, and educators, sharing our passions for literature, language, creativity, and deeply effective written communication.

We center creativity, analytical rigor, the history of the imagination, and the vast power of language - the most necessary, human capacities in an ever-changing world.

We teach students about literature in English from all over the globe, and through centuries of history. We offer them chances to write sharp essays, creative fiction, poetry, and digital narratives of all sorts. 

We develop human skills that last a lifetime, and pleasures that sustain us all.

And we help students live outside of their own experiences. Literary study teaches empathy with others and a critical judgment that rejects simplistic explanations. Reading and writing, both at increasingly sophisticated levels of complexity, allow students to engage critically with the ethical problems and cultural dilemmas that define our world.

All this offers a solid foundation for students exploring a wide universe of careers, from law, to education, to creative fields, to... really anything at all. We offer skills and pleasures that will last a lifetime.