Programs in English
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Undergraduate English Programs
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Coordinator: Paul Lynch, Ph.D.
Graduate English Programs
麻豆视频下载鈥檚 Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy programs in English
provide scholarly training in language and literature, with courses covering a diverse
range of subjects from Old Norse to contemporary writing.
M.A. in English
Coordinator: Maryse Jayasuriya, Ph.D.
Access to Special Collections
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The Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library holds thousands of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts on microfilm, mostly from the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, but from other libraries as well. The library maintains an extensive reference collection to support the study of manuscripts and their texts, and also offers a research fellowship program and holds an annual conference on medieval and Renaissance manuscripts.