READERS of Balzac’s Une Fille d’Ève will recall his description of the depressing education given by the Countess de Granville to her two young daughters. That she might make smooth their path to ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s always risky to make predictions, especially optimistic ones; but I’ve noticed that one of the salutary debates emerging in the new century regarding literary studies -- and by extension the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

We are accepting Fall 2026 applications for our Ph.D. programs. We plan to resume M.A. and MFA admissions in Fall 2027 The BA-MA, MA, and PhD degree programs in English and American Literature enable ...

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 ...

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 ...