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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This talk is going to be about why English professors don't seem to want to teach English and American literature, and about why the consequences of that failure are more important than you might ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The English Journal is a journal of ideas for English language arts teachers in junior and senior high schools and middle schools.

Aspen Mock uses creative methods to encourage creative thinking in her English Language Arts classroom, and those efforts have earned her a national teaching award named after one of America’s most ...

“I’m not sure I can crack it,” he said hesitantly. “The subject I’ve specialised in — English Language Teaching (ELT) — isn’t even on the list of prescribed subjects. So, I’m forced to choose ...

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 ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...