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.

Abridged in 10 episodes and read by John Sessions with Julian Rhind-Tutt as Dr Jekyll and David Shaw-Parker as Dr Lanyon. Author Anthony Horowitz introduces English Literature and Language clips from ...

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 ...

A collection of timeless fiction from the literary greats. Through BBC Sounds, you and your class can enjoy unabridged audio versions of classic novels. These classic novels have been chosen because ...

What will the Common Core State Standards do to the time-honored place of literature in the English/language arts classroom? That’s a question that is pushing its way higher and higher on the national ...

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, ...

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 ...

When 1st Lt. Max Adams was deployed to Iraq in 2002, he took with him a 20-pound hardback edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare. Sometimes he would read from it to his soldiers—speeches ...