1. What can I do with an English Major? At Fordham? After Fordham?

2. Take courses like “The Beat Generation,” “Flash Fiction,” “Knights of the Round Table,” “Jane Austen,” and “Disobedience in Literature.”

3. Take a tour through Dublin in James Joyce’s Ulysses.

4. Join other English majors in internships at places like Harper Collins; MTV; Elle Magazine; Farrar, Straus, Giroux; Yale University Press; and Interview magazine.

5. Study writers like Lord Byron, William Shakespeare, Toni Morrison, Robert Frost, and Junot Diaz.

6. See London through the eyes of Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, and others, during study abroad.

7. Like to write fiction or poetry? Sign up for our creative writing option or minor to receive credit (and guidance) for your fiction and poetry writing.

8. Watch classic movies in classes like “Horror Fiction and Film,” “Alfred Hitchcock,” and “World Cinema.”

9. Explore off-beat forms of writing such as steampunk, postmodern fiction, and fantasy literature.

10. Stay up all night with other students and your prof. for an all-night reading of Milton’s Paradise Lost.

11. Join the Poetry Slam! or attend Poets out Loud.

12. Elect to study your favorite author or subject in-depth, in an independent project of your own choice.

13. Consider majoring in Literary Studies, a program with a comparative emphasis that allows students to blend literature courses from multiple linguistic traditions, and from interdisciplinary perspectives.