What does an English Major read? Year 2 & Lecture Notes 

The best thing about her videos is her passion. Her love for literature is more precious than any diamond

YOUR VOICE IS LIKE A CUP OF TEA AND WARM HONEY AND SPRING AND LAMBS AND OLD BOOKS

I really want to watch this video but I've to actually study for my finals as an English major haha.

Emma's channel is my happy place.

Proud to be a English major student. Last sem of English Language and Literature.

What good did I do to deserve so much Emmie this week😭

Yes! Just graduated 2 years ago at age 51 with a degree in English Literature and a minor in Women and Gender studies. As much as I love to read and write (I write poetry) it was intense. The hardest for me was the language class also but I loved learning how the English language evolved. Thanks for sharing. Love your content.

Every single time I watch one of these videos it makes me even more certain I want to pursue an english lit degree

emma: "when you really start to study english you see how stupid it really is" me: laughs in english linguistics major also the deformed space and time class sounds fascinating! wish my university offered a course like that

omg, the past months i've been considering english but I'm very scared that it won't be practical but seeing the curriculum and what it entails makes me really inspire to push through with it. thank you emma for this video, wishing you a great week ahead!

Almost a year ago... I watched the 1st year English major syllabus and that video along with many other things motivated me to pursue my dreams of literature... Thanks a lot for that Emma 💛💛💛

Emma, thank you so much for these videos. Much respect that you share your magic this a lot of - it’s a delight. Take care and stay well☺️

Thank you for existing Emmie 🧡 that was a super interesting video, I would love to hear more about theory and criticism! And as always it was just really soothing and heartwarming, I hope you're doing great as well 🌿

Emma I just wanted you to know how much i enjoy your videos. They are so relaxing, Also, you are encouraging me to read more classics, which were very intimidating for me before. Thank you for bringing a bit of peace into my otherwise chaotic life and encouraging me to go out of my comfort zone and reading more classics.

watching this brings back so many memories during our English time in uni

i was just thinking about your channel and here you are with another beautiful video!! 🥰

I studied sciences of the language for 3 years here in France, let's say I suffered it's really complicated! So you talking about your language course just gave me flashbacks 😂😂 I feel your pain haha

omg, you read my mind. just yesterday I was rewatching your first year lit video 😭💗

i listen to emmie while doing my schoolwork, imagining that it's the same as her studies TT i want to go to college already and study about stuff that actually matter to me like emmie does TT ♡♡♡ btw thank youuu for spoiling us!

just as i was thinking about you i saw that you uploaded!! genuinely made my day :))

You're my favorite person on RU-vid Emma ❤️ Thank you for the great book recommendations and reviews.

I so wanted to do comparative literature when I was an undergraduate decades ago but ended up with a mathematics major which later led into finance post graduate studies. Have always regretted not doing a literature minor at the very least. At least I can live through what an English major's academic life is like through your videos. Thank you Emma

Hey! Thank you for your videos. Just found you recently and have been so inspired to read more because of you. Would love to see a video of you listing your favorite children's literature someday if possible. Keep up the good work!

As someone who did horrible in school and missed out on college, I really enjoy these videos. Makes me wonder what I could've been learning had I just showed up to class.

I'm in love with everything about you and your channel. Your vibes, your words, your voice, your spirit, your aesthetics. You exude passion for this subject out of every single pore. Thank you, thank you and, again, thank you. You have been such an inspiration to me. Love from Italy!

This was a really great video. I especially loved the deformed space and time segment. It got me to seriously considering looking for House of Leaves at my local bookstores. Thank you.

Wow! I really like these videos, I swear! I’ve graduated from an English major last year in Spain and in here we have to study both literature and linguistics is pretty much equal distribution, so I love to see what you guys who study literature throughout the whole degree read and learn about. I ended up specialising in linguistics (much to everyone’s shock), but I always feel like our knowledge of literature could be so very much improved from day 1 when I see people like you talking about it... anyways, just great! Congrats on the content, as always. Hope you have a great week! 🥰💫

Thank you Emma for this second installment!Context is so important:you have turned it into an art form.I know I'm the dunce at the back of the class, but I'll be the last to leave the classroom.

Thank you for sharing such amazing stuff with us!

Love this video! As an English/Education major, it's wonderful to see so many similar novels read in completely different contexts than my experience. I was surprised there was no Pynchon in your time class (especially with his fascination/obsession with entropy). My thesis is on the use of space-time, especially as it relates to trauma; jealous I couldn't have taken that class!

I would always leave a theory lecture questioning my own existence😂 This was so fun to watch! We did very different classes so it was super interesting learning about what you focused on💕

Girl I had flashbacks when you pulled up that Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, definitely the worst module I've ever taken 😭

Really interesting, thank you very much! I like the vibe from the video. And really cool that you showed some notes too. Greetings from Germany

Thank you soooo much for this video Emma.🌱 For those of us who have studied English lit as a foreign language and those who are living in countries where there's not a deep understanding of the potentials of this major in terms of what it is and how vast it can be, this video was just great✨ Althogh it frightened me a little bit since I have not even read half of the content you just mentioned😅😰 but still it's amazing to know how mesmerizing lit can be🌱🌻 thank you🌹🌿

I love your channel! I honestly do! You have a natural charisma for literature topics. Congrats!! If you allow me the daring I want to make a suggestion: How about a Short Story contest among subscribers during your holidays? or a totally random picking to make your work easier, that will be awesome!!

Please do more of specific course content things! The talking is amazing and the substance of it is really good stuff. I'm a first year uni student and it's super helpful thanks!

Very interesting video, Emma! Thank you lots. Please make more videos like this!

It's always so interesting to hear you talk about how your degree work! You're so clear when you explain. Also, it was quite fun to hear you talk about the "nightmare course" because as a student of foreign languages (and because of how the course is structured in my country) I've been studying linguistics for four years at this point ahahah. I agree with you, the part about social lingustics is more interesting (personally, I love the story of languages and the family trees) and the part that I have more problems with is phonology😓 (English phonology is particularly bad). It was my first linguistic course in my university and I considered dropping out

Omg, what a great topic; yes, more like it, please. So many of the titles and authors you mentioned are first rate; your professors designed excellent classes. P.S. I got 3/4 through House of Leaves and gave up out of fatigue. Maybe one day I will finish it.

Took up Bachelor of Arts in English Studies and majored in Anglo-American lit in undergrad! I miss those days. Probably the best years of my life. Thank you for another wonderful video, Emma.

I'm a Research Scholar in English and lately have been feeling extremely detached from Reading , I keep procrastinating about reading my notes or reading anything but your videos have encouraged me a lot to get back on my horse . A genuine Thankyou !!! , you consistently have been my guide .

yaayyyy i'm so excited for this since i'm a second year english literature student too!!!!

I'm about to enter first year of uni taking english lit so thank you for your informative videos, it helps me in preparing for it

I feel like i learned so much from this video😳 it was so interesting! Thank you!!!

Lovely! I study english too and I confirm that it is one of the best things I have done in my life. It is so funny that I dont enjoy courses that are linguistics related as well; they make so confused. Maybe because we integrate french and arabic too since english is my third language. I loved how you talked about criticism. I have not reached that stage yet, but now I feel super excited to explore this field. thank you again. I was just revising for my exams, and then opened your video; i feel motivated heheh. Thank you, miss! keep doing what you love. I congratulate you that your passion has reached many people here including myself.

I'm in the process of writing an essay about Heart of Darkness through the perspective of a psychoanalytic critic, studying for my oral exam and a bunch of other things... It's hard work being an English major, hahaha

Your writing is soooo beautiful!

I was just rewatching the original video on your first year courses when I got a notification for this one! Would you still consider doing a video on the classical lit portion of your degree? Also if you enjoy mythological retellings, highly recommend A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes! It’s a retelling of the events of the Iliad (and drawing on other tangential myths) from the perspective of the women. imo it does everything The Silence of the Girls tried to do, but so much better

You are awesome! Thank you so much for these videos!

omg i love your notebooks so much

I would love a video about what you learned into the Criticism course ! This subject seams really interesting, but as I am a history major I don't think I'll ever have the opportunity to follow a course about it loved the video btw !

I subscribed after finding part 1 so glad found your channel💚

The Yellow Wallpaper is my FAVORITE short story. Love it so much.

I'm first0ear English major and I'm very intrigued by the history of criticism class! The topics you discussed were so interesting and I hope I can find similar classes at my uni!

Oh bananas - I’ve literally been watching your Year 1 vid currently but I’m only halfway through... but a new vid from Emma is hard to say no to, and thus u shall have to put a pause on that (so I’m hoping there’s no spoilers, you saucy devil!)... can’t wait though :)))

I just graduated from uni a week ago but I’m still watching for more book recommendations!

Your channel is so amazing!

I love this so much! (I say like I don't love all your videos) But this is particularly relevant for me because I'm trying to decide what I want to study when I finish school (next July!!). I'm leaning heavily towards English Literature (or you know, one of the other many names for it) I don't 100% know, but this definitely made me want to more!! I would love to see you talk more about your degree, for hours at a time hahaha

Emmie. I enjoy very much watching your videos. And getting inspired by your readings. Could you do one piece where you teach us your reading techniques, what do you annotate in your books and the stickers you put, what do they mean, I would be fascinated to learn more. Stay well.

I graduated with my B.A. in English in 2019 and it is so lovely to see what other English majors read! You are absolutely correct-- there is an incredible amount of diversity within each school's department of English. Any English majors out there I highly recommend taking English courses that give you a lot of literature beyond simply American/ British (especially if you live in the US.) Also, PLEASE take elective courses in either grant writing, business writing, etc, because landing a job, whether or not it has anything to do with your degree, is extremely difficult. (As someone from California/ Oregon.) I wish you all the best of luck and if you're interested in the major-- do it, or at least try a few courses! Love your videos and recommendations Emmie!

Oh my gosh, I was hoping you would do an update for your second year!! 🥺💖

I thought it was so interesting to see you struggle with linguistics as someone who’s more of a literature student since the roles were reversed for me, as I came from a linguistics study and took some literature courses. Those took me out not gonna lie. :)

Emmie! In Mexico we have a very important novel named "Los Recuerdos del Porvenir" by Elena Garro. It talks about a town during war, but it manages time in such a strange way. It is beautiful, and I think if you liked the readings for your time and space class, you will really enjoy this :)

Master's in literature here...love to hear you so excited for the adventure!!

I actually love these kinds of videos, once classes start would you consider a "study with me"? I would love to see it🥰

i love your notes! they look so cute!

Absolutely loved this video, Emma! I'm doing my Honours year in Literature, and you going through all the different courses you did in the second year made me so nostalgic for the courses I did that year as well. But goodness, we didn't have an English Language course to do. That sounds ROUGH! :D (and in a mild way super interesting if it wasn't as full-on as all that). I kind of wish I had History of Theory and Criticism that looked at older criticism/theory because the Theory and Criticism course I took just started from F.R. Leavis, Matthew Arnold and went on to contemporary times but that course was BRILLIANT. Your Deformed Space & Time course sounds SO SO incredible. I did a Gothic Literature & Culture course that covered a few of the same ideas and it was so captivating. One of my favourite professors did his doctorate research on The House of Leaves! I still need to read it though, it sounds bonkers! My other favourite courses were Poetry and the Imagination (lots of Romantic poets!), Birth of the Modern, Jane Austen and Her Influence, Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, and Postmodernism. Oh my goodness, good old Lyotard and Frederick Jameson! I wrote on Lyotard and his critique of the metanarratives in one of my final Lit essays for undergrad, and looked at Calvino's If On A Winter's Night a Traveller and DeLillo's White Noise. Crazy fun :) Thank you so much for sharing, Emma! Wonderful video. You're so right, it's always so endlessly fascinating talking with other English lit students about what books and courses they got to study in their degree. Random, but as someone who keeps failing abysmally at this, I'm just so impressed by your level of class/lecture note-taking skills. Would you be willing to share more about how you do those?

Im so excited to start uni this fall as an English Major student! Thank you for this video because it has hyped me up so much!!!

The course about the sounds we make sounded pretty cool understanding the science behind how we speak

Seeing medical knowledge in English course makes my heart so warm... #forevermedico ♥️

I'm going into the 3rd year of my linguistics degree this September. It was interesting to hear you talk about it lol. I'm also taking a minor in philosophy, so I'd definitely recommend anyone to take some courses in that, as a lot of it can help in analyzing literature as well

I’m a math major but I’m very intrigued in expanding my English and I can’t afford into taking any other classes except the ones I’m required to take. And you going over what you have taken is saving me money and guide me on how I should start developing my English. Now I have a step by step😩😩gracias

The segment on deformed space/time gets to me. I’ve read Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Yellow Wallpaper and those are favorites. Uzumaki by Junji Ito is another magnificent work on the alteration of time and space and the self, but the terror that is “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison still messes with me.

I would like to see a video completely dedicated to theory and criticism and know your ideas and experience. And as always great video👍

Not sure if you already have, but you should definitely go through all the books on your shelves 😆 they all look so good and I have never heard of them! Since it would take a long time maybe just do a 30 sec book review on each book? That would be awesome looking for books to read for summer!

Makes me nostalgic for my English classes ✨ I was surprised that I’d read most of the works from the theory classes even though my English major didn’t have a theory specific course requirement!

Am I an English mayor? No Am I going to watch the whole video? Yes Should I be studying for my cardiology exam? Yes

As always your videos are always in perfect timing. I enter 2nd year next year😭❤

Glad to see I still remember stuff from my degree ten years later as you’re going through your courses 😂

im so exciteddddd

awsome as always by the way your vidéos in war and peace are really good you really did make considering read it

this video was really good ❤️

plato!! i read the republic in high school but i also studied his theories at uni this year! did you do the russian formalists too? their ideas on language and literature were fascinating! they were the introduction to new criticism. i love watching this type of videos, it's so amazing how different uni courses are all over the world! and i'm always nosy on what peoplke have to read and study :) i plan on filming a video myself about everything i've read in my first year of uni too!

I'm still dreaming of studying English (or rather anglistics since I'm German) after finishing my master's in clinical psych, so this video made me very happy thinking about what the future might hold :)

Here it comes!♥️

Hey, Emmie. As you speak I am reliving my diploma and degree days. I loved the linguistic course that go didn't like. 😅 My diploma is in Secondary Education in English and Literature. My degree in Language and Literacy. I enjoyed all I studied. Your video was all the things I loved about my teachers college days. ❤

i took an english (ancient greco-roman lit.) course as a general education (idk what it’s called outside of canada) course and it made me seriously consider studying english. i even got a letter from the english department at my uni asking me to double major in english, but i had already signed up for another major, so i couldn’t pursue it. luckily, my major in communications has a lot of cross-over with english theory and linguistics, plus i’m saving room for a shakespeare course in third year :) gotta love english lit. it’s always so fascinating

I didn’t take an English degree but i am more and more seeing how the university I went to really put a focus on a Humanities-centered curriculum. I got war flashbacks of college when you started talking about the Chair omg

This was absolutely FASCINATING to me. I got my degree in English and I feel like I did not read 95% of the things that you read!

i love these kind of videos

I honestly don’t think I would ever be able to take the “deformed space + time” class. Anything having to do with space and the passage of time is probably my biggest and worst anxiety/panic disorder trigger, so this class sounds terrifying haha

YES! Please do a video on Lit theory. Perhaps touch a little on the differences between the philosophy of literature & lit theory? Great content as always

Would love to see a whole video introduction to postmodernism and your thoughts on it! It's an area of literature I'm really interested in getting into, but I don't know where to start.

Dear Emmie.. this kind of videomakes me want to change my major AGAIN for the fourth time!! (i miss english litt sm)

I love this videos i’m an english student but studying mostly translation in Cairo University so we don’t really read that much but it is so fun when we do !

I love your notes! Color-coded, combination of handwritten and typed. "The girl with the pearl earring -- it's not me." That cracked me up.

I am so excited to hear that I am not the only one who basically hated the History of English Language. I had to take that course in my bachelor's degree and suffered so much!

'Dreams in the witch house' is my all time favorite Lovecraft story. I was interested in what you said about trauma effecting perception. I remember it most for its dark haunted ambiance. Glad you liked it, I will never forget that story.

I would recommend also "Aspects of the novel" by E.M. Forster.

her voice is perfect to audiobooks