English Language & Literature: Getting Started

Databases are a good place to start when looking for scholarly journals and articles. 

Reference Databases

English Subject Databases 

Multidisciplinary Databases 

Start your research at the Library's website: https://millsaps.edu/academics/millsaps-wilson-library/online-library-search/

Enter your search term in Big Search.  Try starting with broad terms. 

From there you can look for articles, books, and films

Browse Library Books by Subject 

Language and Literature books, often with call numbers starting with P, are located on the top floor in the West wing.  They are arranged by country, then time period, then author.  The broad categories are as follows:

• PA--Classical Philology (Greek and Latin)
• PB--Modern European Languages (General), Celtic Languages and Literatures 
• PC--Romance Languages
• PD--Old Germanic and Scandinavian Languages
• PE--English Language
• PF--Dutch, Flemish, and German Languages
• PG--Slavic, Baltic, Albanian: Languages and Literatures 
• PH--Finno-Ugrian. Basque Language and Literature
• PJ--Oriental, Semitic Languages and Literatures
• PK--Indo-Iranian Languages and Literatures
• PL--Languages and Literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, and Oceania
• PM--Hyperborean, American, and Artificial Languages 
• PN--Literary History. Drama. Literary Collections. (General) 
• PQ--Romance Literatures
• PR--English Literature
• PS--American Literature
• PT--German Literatures
• PZ--Children's and Juvenile Literature 

Department of English

Selby and Richard McRae Christian Center 

Offices: CC 144-149

Programs: 

Literature in English

Creative Writing

Communication Studies