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 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 ...

College English is the professional journal for the college scholar-teacher. CE publishes articles about literature, rhetoric-composition, critical theory, creative writing theory and pedagogy, ...

The English Journal is a journal of ideas for English language arts teachers in junior and senior high schools and middle schools. EJ presents information on the teaching of writing and reading, ...

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 — ...

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 ...

What’s the most effective way to approach literature education in the secondary classroom? Reading assigned for hw? Read alouds? Independent reading? In Part One of this series, several educators - ...

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