With a faculty composed of renowned scholars and dedicated teachers, the MIT Literature section offers a wide range of courses across time periods, international cultures, and languages. Literature courses at MIT examine how novels, poems, plays, films, visual art, and other media make imaginative and critical sense of history and the present.
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The Literature concentration takes about three approved subjects to complete! Lit concentrators often go on to minoring or majoring in Literature!
Toni Morrison was the first African American woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She won the Pulitzer in 1988 and Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.
Literature minors can choose to focus their studies on specific literary complexes as well as film, ancient & medieval studies, and more!
Emily Dickinson was also known for her botany, herbarium, and garden. Only ten of her poems were published during her lifetime and often submitted anonymously.