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 ...

I teach creative writing to undergraduates in a writing program at the University of Central Arkansas that ... also includes rhetoric and linguistics. There is no doubt that, as “Undergraduates Heed ...

Literature reviews, like all kinds of writing, are best taught in their specific disciplinary contexts, although there are some overall principles about them that we focus on below. In this resource, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 first book that ever knocked me back into my own un-knowing was Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. More than any other character I can recall from reading during my youth, I admired and rooted for ...

For the purposes of this article, classics are defined as literary works that “meet some common high standards for quality, appeal, longevity, and influence.” “Classics are still important to read and ...

One-on-One is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and Vizio ...

This first week of October is the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week. According to a recently released report by the advocacy group PEN America, which tracks book bans, the past school ...

McClanahan is an associate professor of English at UC Irvine and lives in Irvine. When I tell people I teach English literature courses to incarcerated UC Irvine students, they typically ask me ...

Showalter's distillation of her half-century of teaching (along with the experience of scores of other teachers) in this jargon-free blend of manual and memoir will appeal to readers with a general ...