In this proram We teach a special kind of knowledge here. If the philosopher traffics in ideas, the historian in facts, the mathematician in numbers, it is the critic s business to understand the world through words. Our concentrators read widely in the literatures written in English, over its long history and across its global reach. They test the boundaries of the category of literature itself, in relation to other media and to the broader category of culture. Through the lens of language, they get to consider the great questions: power, beauty, identity, love.