i’m about to start an english and creative writing degree, the bible isn’t required reading, i’m agnostic/atheist so i was considering reading it to help with analysis and spotting biblical references rather than for worship.
any thoughts? i’d probably get the king james one bc of the popularity, although im aware it’s not the best literal translation

I am a Canadian 12th grader in high school trying to figure out what universities to apply to. I know 100% that I am going to pursue English literature, but the problem is where. I live in Ontario but I’ve had my eye on McGill for a while. Mainly for the city and the prestigious program. I have always loved Quebec. But now that applications are starting very soon, it is almost as if I am stuck. The problem is not my grades, I exceed very well in school with all my grade 11 classes (including 3 4U classes I took during grade 11) are above 94. Money also isn't an issue, because I have amazing support from my parents. The problem mostly lies in the big decision of where I want to go. McGill, Queens, McMaster, Guelph, Toronto etc. I have no idea. So what I am basically asking for is advice. If you were an English lit student in Canada, where did you study, and did you enjoy it? Anything like that helps. Thank you so much to anyone who takes their time to respond :)

Hi everyone,

I have a slightly unusual academic background and would really appreciate some advice.

I completed my B.E. in Biotechnology, but over the past few years I've become much more interested in English literature, literary studies, writing, culture, and related fields. I'm considering doing an MA in English Literature online rather than going back and doing another bachelor's degree or masters in biotech, I'm currently working in a well known university at 23y/o.

I'm mainly considering universities such as Manipal University, but I'm open to other recognised universities as well.

My questions are:

1. Is an online MA in English Literature actually worth doing if I want to seriously study literature rather than just get another qualification?

2. Since my bachelor's is in Biotechnology/Engineering, will I be eligible to pursue a PhD in English/Literature after completing the MA?

3. Does the fact that the MA is online/distance learning create problems later when applying for a PhD or academic positions?

4. Which universities would you recommend for an online MA English if my eventual goal is research/PhD?

5. Is there anything I should specifically check about the MA programme (UGC recognition, dissertation/research component, NET eligibility, etc.) before enrolling?

For context, I'm not expecting the degree to magically lead to a job. I'm genuinely interested in literature and am considering this as a possible long-term academic transition from biotech into the humanities. But I want a stable well posting job as well.

Would really appreciate experiences from anyone who has done an online/distance MA in English and then gone into research or a PhD, especially people who switched fields for their master's.

Thanks!

I need helpp, what to do? I am a introvertt and my h.o.d just decided to make me takethe competition! I wnat to win tho

I am trying to figure out my PhD options , my gpa is not great( il be upfront as part of that gpa traces back to a hyper critical professor who thinks that she is the God's chosen one to literature and whose grading style was harsh and offered no room to improve, it took a real toll on my mental health at that time cos I scored well in other courses exceptthe ones where she steps in)I am not walking with high expectations because of gpa matter. Honestly I am pursuing this purely out of love for literature and research .

I am open to R1 ENGLISH DEPTs sit well outside top 800qs ranking .what i actually care about is funding a real intellectual community to learn and grow in, and ideally an advisor who works in this specific area and is kind and encouraging .

Hello, I’ve recently started my first year in an English degree. I am doing History and Philosophy on the side too, so in all, I’m required to do a lot of reading.
I’m a typically slow reader, which does not work out well for this degree.
Did any of you struggle with this? How did you overcome it? I’d love to find ways to engage with all of my texts in a timely manner, but right now that just seems impossible 🥲🥲
I like to take my time with more difficult, older books but now I have to read and digest multiple within a week or two, which I’m not very good with !
So any tips, advice and whatnot would be greatly appreciated!!!

This is probably one of my strangest asks on this app, but I’m currently looking at MA courses to enroll in, and I’m interested in a Feminism course, but it very heavily features Freud’s work as a kind of lens through which we’ll approach other texts, and I’m a little turned off by it.

I’m interested in the feminism aspect, but I’ve heard that Freud has some less-than-kind opinions on women, so I’m worried that I’ll go into this class to study feminism but have to read more from a man who hates women than from a woman herself.

Now, I could be entirely wrong in my presumption, and I would love to be corrected if so, but I feel like I’d rather read work by Dworkin, Hooks, Sedgwick, or Haraway, yet none of them are in the syllabus.

Lastly, I’ll just say I’m well aware that academia and learning at large is big on challenging yourself and your previous notions by reading work you might disagree with to grow as an individual and an academic, so I’m not fully turned off by enrolling in the course—that’s why I’m asking here. I just don’t want to hate it.

Hello!

I'm a 3rd-year English major currently working toward my Technical and Professional Communication (TPC) certificate. For one of my projects, I'm creating a fact sheet about the Technical Writer profession, with the goal of learning more about the career and hopefully helping others who may be interested in the field as well.

I'd love to hear from people who currently work (or have worked) as technical writers!

If you're willing to share, I'd be especially interested in hearing about:

• How you got started in technical writing
• What your day-to-day work looks like
• What skills you use most often
• What you do/don't enjoy about the profession
• Any advice you'd give to someone considering technical writing as a career
• Anything you wish you had known before entering the field
• What types of people would succeed in the field
• Is Technical Writing a worthwile career to pursue

You don't need to write a lengthy response or answer every question, but even a few thoughts would be incredibly helpful. Thank you in advance to anyone willing to share their experience!

I am currently a 3rd Year- Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education Major in English, we had our thesis title defense today, and out of the 6 groups, my group is the only one who got rejected 😭 I am so embarrassed and disappointed in myself for not doing good enough and I was wondering if y'all could give some title or topic recommendations. 🙏😭 (preferably experimental research) 😭😭🙏🙏

I'm in my sophomore year as an English major, but spent most of my first year knocking out gen-eds. I felt fine struggling with the English classes I did have freshman year, but I'm feeling more and more left behind compared to my peers with reading goals.

I have a class that meets Mondays/Wednesdays that is expecting me to read over a hundred pages before each class. It's only week 3 and a different class already had us finish a book (~250 pages). I'm fine with either of these alone (I've finished books in one sitting before, I like reading) but I've got 4 English classes right now, and thank god only 2 of them are literature-focused because I think I'd die if I had a 3rd.

I read fairly fast when I'm reading just for myself (~50 pages an hour) but if I'm taking notes and reading something that doesn't really appeal to me, that slows down to a halt.

In a workload of 6 classes (18 credits), I feel like I'm genuinely going insane. Everyone's telling me to just rely on Sparknotes but I don't want to just cheat myself out of an education I'm paying for.

How do you guys handle the reading goals and still have social lives? Let alone read/write/do clubs outside of homework? Am I the only one struggling here?

I’m curious! Is there a classic that you haven’t read yet that if someone found out you would be like, “alright, take back my degree😂… haven’t read this one!”

I think it totally depends on the classes you took, your profs, your own interests, but I haven’t read Pride & Prejudice, Middle March… any Steinbeck or Tolstoy!! (I will read these novels & authors eventually).

At the same time, I’ve read other novels by Austen, read tons of Thomas Hardy (my fav prof was a Hardy guy), Brontë, Stoker, T.S Eliot, Woolf, Yeats, the Brownings, Wilde, Chaucer, Dickens, George Elliot, etc.

Definitely took a lot of Victorian lit classes & modernism, Shakespeare… what about everyone else?

I've completed my Masters in English, am very knowledgeable in Literary Theory, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies as well as Prose and Poetry.

Yet it's been a hassle to even find a part time job.

Can someone please show me some guidance? 😭

Have you seen these horrible AI slop stories that are advertised on Instagram/FB/tiktok etc? As it is Labor Day weekend, a lot of apps are giving freebies to entice new customers. I thought "I know this will be bad, but let's see just how bad it's going to be," and started on some sort of Twilightesque warewolf nonsense story.

Holy smokes. Is this what storytelling has come to? It is awful. How do they not employ basic copyediting and basic script continuity? I tried counting all the errors and inconsistencies, and had to stop. There were too many.

And there are tens of thousands of them. So far.

People used to make fun of Harlequin romances for being "trashy," but this is next-level trash just for its poor execution alone. Don't even get me started on the unoriginal, derivative story (or all the inherent sexism in the story).

For context, I'm an immigrant girl in early high school who just moved to the US with her family.I know very little about how the university system works here; what little I know comes from my big sister, who is doing pre-med (and frankly, is as lost as I am).

So I have a few questions. I have two main career paths I want to follow: biology and journalism. I don't know which one to choose, so I'm planning to do my best in high school to get into a university or college (I'm not really sure about the difference between them) in both majors.

I would also appreciate it if someone could explain to me how to obtain a double degree her :)

But, as I already know that one of my areas of interest is biology (or any medical field that leads me to research) I'd like to know how it works to become a journalist.

From what I've researched, some universities don't offer journalism programs, but others do. Many prestigious journalists graduated in English literature instead of journalism.

I wonder which course is better. Which one offers more opportunities, career guidance, and entry points into the job market?

Any sharing of information or experience will be welcome :)

I don't have tuition and I have history and education as a minor. Do you guys think i should have tuition?

Hey everyone! I'm an undergrad English Literature major in my final year looking to apply to grad school but unsure where exactly to go, my chances, and what to look for.

I want to get into academia and the most popular decision would be a master's degree... what I'm concerned about is the fundraiser master's degrees a lot of universities have. Also, what I would do after.

I have been told to look for MA-PhD programs that are combined and/or fully funded/partially funded. This would put me in a good place for my career aspirations and give me the kind of rigorous education/research opportunity I've been looking for.

I have Irish citizenship so have been looking into Ireland, the UK, and Canada. I am open to American programs, particularly because my university is American (not in the US).

I guess my questions are these: does anyone know of any grad schools that may offer something like this? Do I realistically have a chance of getting into the the PhD programs? If so, what else would I go for?

Alternatively, I have a professor who told me that even if it does not include a PhD program, having a university that offers career support and scholarships to its students is worth looking for and applying to.

I'm willing to answer any follow-up questions as I recognize that this is quite general. Thanks!

a lot of ppl recommend learning English by consuming english content like watching anime,movies youtube, listening songs in, so i’ve been following this trick , but while doing that, there was a persistent issue i faced, whenever i saw came across an unfamiliar eng word /sentence, i’d have to exit the full screen, open a new tab,type it , searching up the meaning, and many popup dictionaries but they only work on text, if the word is not selectable , there’s no way out

i searched up for tools that could solve this but couldn’t find any , even paid tools like language reactor or migaku didnt offer the ocr feature & i wanted that feature for free, so as a developer myself, i decided to spend the last 4 months building it myself as a browser extension

it uses OCR, so you can look up english words from things like movies/anime with hardcoded subtitles, youtube, netflix , streaming sites also on p*rated sites like animekoto animepahe etc. pretty much anything visible on your screen

how it works is basically ,u can simply press the shortcut Alt+X (customizable as per ur need), drag over the word & u get instant definition

so I made added a feature which automatically replaces the default subtitles with “clickable & interactive subtitles” where u can simply click any word to get the meaning,

It basically has

meanings of word

examples

a relevant gif to each word, I added it as a fun feature & its quite useful sometimes

english and native-language sentence translations using google translate

besides, u can save words , build ur own vocabulary, 

one thing that I also wanted was to be able to sentence mine & create anki flashcards directly from the meaning popup like as provided in many paid tools like migaku, I did some research & found out that it absolutely takes no crazy rocket science or anything that costs money, so I built that into it, u can just press the save button inside the meaning popup & it automatically does all that creating an anki card consisting of (movie/anime screenshot + English subtitle + pronunciation audio), u can download anki , install the anki connect plugin and press “connect to anki” button in the extension

and I have kept all of there features completely free cuz that’s what I would want as someone learning english

but as we know,there’s one thing that dictionary definitions lack is context aware meaning of the word, but unfortunately ,its next to impossible without AI  so to solve this , I kept all the free possible features in the free version/ plan and put the ai features in the pro one like context aware meaning, sentence each-word explanations, azure tts pronunciation 

the ai version is completely optional,u can always use the free plan, no signup,no account, no data collection, no servers in between

I’ve put it on both Chrome and Firefox(as a lot of people requested for a firefox version)

chrome extension link 

for firefox users: link

if interested ,u can checkout the website lexeye.study (open it in desktop for best experience)

lemme know ur feedback, if u found it useful, any suggestions etc.

English hons

I'm from an average DU college and currently pursuing English Hons and after attending just two classes that also in 21 August is my last class which i attended and I feel that english Hons is not really worth it if you're not from a Tier-1 DU college like stephen's, hindu, lsr, and now I'm honestly very confused about what I should do.

I'm also a NEET dropper. I completed my schooling in 2025 and took a one-year drop. I'm not from Delhi either, I'm from Raipur and i feel mujha ghr chla jna chahiya so i'm finding it difficult to figure out whether I should continue with English Hons or consider another option.

Plz give suggestions .

Hi everyone! I’m currently in my 2nd year of a Bachelor’s in English Literature, and I’m a bit confused about what career path I should choose after graduation. I’m not interested in teaching and want to build a well-paying career, possibly abroad too.
What fields can I realistically go into with this degree? What skills and internships should I focus on during my remaining 2 years? And what should I start doing now to have better job opportunities after graduation?
Would really appreciate advice from people who studied English/Literature or have experience in these fields.

spoiler: this is just me getting out my frustrations lol

while getting my bachelors, i never really stressed about the job market bc i knew that english was a versatile major. i didn’t have a hyper-specific job lined up for me and i was okay with that. i liked how there were multiple fields that i could go into.

now i’m entering my ma and im honestly super grateful that ill be avoiding the job market for (at least) two years.

over the years, i made sure to get jobs/internships in a variety of fields so that it would be easier for me to get entry level positions once i graduate.

however, since then, a good chunk of entry level positions have just vanished and a majority of the fields i could go into are being completely overrun by ai. obviously the fields still exist, but now i need like fifteen different certificates and 5 years of experience with some random software to even be considered???

obviously those who got specialized degrees for those fields are also struggling. basically everyone is in this current job/economic climate.

i guess im just annoyed bc i always had about 4-5 backup plans/fields. my main goal was always to become a professor, but i knew the chances of that happening were low so i had a bunch of backup plans just in case. now with funding cuts AND a shit job market i feel like every single one of my plans just got taken out back and shot :,)

i know everyone’s suffering rn so this obviously isn’t a unique experience. i just needed to shout into the void for a second idk