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 ...

A generation ago, teaching and studying literature was traditional and familiar. If you majored in English, chances are you studied Homer and Dante, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton, Spenser, Dickens and ...

You’re reading The Alcove, an interview series with artists and scholars affiliated with Duke University, including students, faculty and alumni in the arts and humanities. Inspired by the style and ...

I’d drawn a little tombstone on the board. I was in the middle of leading a class of 10th-grade English students through Piggy’s death scene in Lord of the Flies: the rock, the shattered conch, ...

Great literature teaches readers morality by turning them into minor characters in someone else’s life story, writes Gary Saul Morson, professor of Slavic languages and literature at Northwestern ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Whenever I assign a long reading for homework or offer to peruse one collectively, a tremendous sigh ...

Romeo and Juliet is on my syllabus this year, as it has been for the last six years, in two different schools. I’m not alone—William Shakespeare is one of the most widely taught authors in U.S.

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

Imagine a world without English majors. In the last decade, the study of English and history in college has fallen by a third. At Columbia University, the share of English majors fell from 10 percent ...