The Department of English Literature and Linguistics at Bar-Ilan University offers students a solid foundation in the history and development of English and American literature, with classes spanning the work of great canonical authors such as Shakespeare, Milton, Austen, and Dickens as well as contemporary authors. Courses and assignments also aim to develop high-level skills of analysis, critical thinking, argumentation, and self-expression.

If you have been puzzled by how language works or why it sometimes doesn’t show the properties that you might expect, or if you’ve wondered how children learn language, what happens in our brain when we process language and how we are able to produce and understand sentences we’ve never heard before, so have we. You are welcome to join our linguistics studies, looking for answers to these exciting questions, and many more like them, and to become part of the lively and quickly developing field of modern linguistics, which is not only the study of language but also the study of the human ability to acquire and use language.