<p>I was an English Lit major at Williams and the department is superb. I was presented with far more cutting-edge/influential theory than two of my close friends, who majored in English Lit at Grinnell and Kenyon. I’m quite sure English is terrific at Amherst and Swarthmore, too. I have a few former students in the English dept. at Pomona, and their reports are glowing.</p>