Every spring, during college graduation season, I think about a former professor who uttered two astonishing sentences that changed the course of my life. I was a disaffected student, attending ...

Researchers at New York%27s The New School say findings preliminary Subjects read short excerpts and then were tested on reading emotional cues Reading literary fiction %22may change how%2C not just ...

Literature might unveil more than we might think about emotions that reflect a specific time and place, or even show how emotions have changed, or remained fairly similar, throughout time. Bradley ...

I have a vivid memory of one of my first meaningful failures as a high school English teacher. I was convinced I could recreate the same kind of inspirational experience I had experienced in the ...

When hagiographers wrote saints’ lives, God provided the providential outline. “Any life conceived within the framework of a single world view is likely to seem coherent,” says David Ellis, adding ...

Family: Bob, my husband, son Mark and his wife Diane, son Chip and his wife Alise, daughter Kristin and three grandchildren, Michael, Andrew and Christina. Career: Second-grade teacher at St. Clement ...

The Department of English Language and Literature aims to teach all students to write and speak well and to read skillfully, thoughtfully and with pleasure. We offer many courses that stress literary ...

“You be that one,” I remember my daughter saying to a companion. “And I’ll be this one.” My daughter was about five at the time, and, as in the imaginary games played by children of that age, she and ...

In a new book, Walsh explores the wildly divergent genres and styles of writing that are popular in China today. In her new book “The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters,” Megan Walsh ...