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 ...

High school students can benefit from lessons on how films use visual language to express classic devices like ...

G iven the collapse of the job market, the casualization of labor, the contraction of humanities departments, and the dismantling of tenure, is it possible to celebrate — earnestly and passionately — ...

In The American Scholar, Mark Edmundson makes the modest proposal that professors of literature should teach literature: Word is out on the street: the study of literature is dying; English is ...

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 ...

I teach comparative literature at Columbia University. At the start of every semester, if I plan to discuss one of my own novels in class, I always tell my new students an old story about writing and ...

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 ...

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 ...