41.   He studied English literature at Ankara University, and later Sanskrit and Bengali at London University.

42.   He went to Cambridge University on a choral scholarship, and studied English literature.

43.   He taught English literature at the University of Wisconsin and was tenured at Harvard, where one of his students was Norman Mailer.

44.   He taught sociology, social philosophy, English literature, the history of Chinese science and many other subjects that reflected his grasp of various cultures and fields.

45.   His father, Peter Mendes, who is of Portuguese ancestry, is a retired university lecturer in English literature.

46.   His plays were safely absorbed into a harmless pageant of English comic literature.

47.   I had abandoned a doctorate in English literature, had just gotten married and within months had taken a leave from my job to write fiction.

48.   Hollywood has been busy mining the canon of English literature, from Austen to Shakespeare, but Wilde has been conspicuously ignored.

49.   I was a professor of English literature at the State University of New York and at the same time a member of Students for a Democratic Society.

50.   If the Hardy Boys had gone on to Yale and studied English literature, they might have ended up a lot like Ron Rosenbaum.