| ...to quickly finish my post on the humanities:
the rest of the humanities departments at bucknell (and any top liberal arts college) are going to be strong for the same reason the history department is strong. tenure-track jobs in these fields are hard to snag, especially at the highly selective universities where most humanities graduates want to teach.
there is a real strength in both poetry and creative writing, though, as bucknell is home to both the stadler center for poetry (with a prestigious poet-in-residence program) and the prestigious creative writing residency, sponsored by alum philip roth. |