After 40 years of teaching literature, Elaine Showalter has written a book that inspires the conversation about teaching literary studies. "Teaching Literature," published last December by Blackwell ...

At the moment, literature as literature is taught only in college, in two General Education subjects required of all humanities, social sciences, and communication majors – Literatures of the ...

I am often asked to lecture on new ways to teach literature. I usually begin such lectures by distinguishing between Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants, as these terms were first defined by Marc ...

Two years ago, Saint Francis University professor John Woznak presented a paper at a Westchester University English ...

The literature survey course is taught at most colleges and universities. Its content and pedagogy are debated frequently at disciplinary meetings and in faculty lounges. A new collection of essays ...

I had read in a slim philosophy textbook that the love of wisdom doesn’t bake bread. A year later I was an English major in a local college. Because a regular curriculum for a four-year program ...

When 1st Lt. Max Adams was deployed to Iraq in 2002, he took with him a 20-pound hardback edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare. Sometimes he would read from it to his soldiers—speeches ...

Alysia Abbott was 18 when the first World AIDS Day was observed on December 1, 1988. I was aware of the disease and terrified ...

You’ve polished your CV and cover letter and lined up your letters of recommendation. Your application for a faculty position is ready, with one big exception: You’re still struggling to write a ...

NPR's Michel Martin talks with high school English teacher Eric Devine and author Laurie Halse Anderson about teaching high schoolers about sexual assault. We talk about sexual assault in the news ...