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The Birth of the English Major Frank Vogel and reflects on what theThe Birth of the English Major tells the story of how literature written in English became established as a field of study in American universities. Dayton Haskin examines archival materials drawn from more than thirty colleges to explore the shift from prioritizing classical education, focused on Latin, Greek, and mathematics, to offering courses on English literature. Unlike accounts of the rise of English as a discipline in which professionals do