Literary Map of English Language
Literary history of the English language in one map: It moves through time. It starts in 1800 and moves through to this year. The article also has Kalev Leetaru’s map of locations mentioned in...
View ArticleLiterature Helps with Mental Health
The Independent.uk has a story about how literature can help with mental health problems. Stephen Fry, Sir Ian McKellen and Melvyn Bragg have each given deeply personal interviews to academics as part...
View ArticleWhat College Students are Reading
Quartz has an article about the Open Syllabus Project that uses online syllabi to examine what we are assigning in university. Plato, Hobbes, Machiavelli, and Aristotle overwhelmingly dominate lists in...
View ArticleCCTE 2016: Carmen Tafoya
Carmen Tafoya spoke on the exclusion of students from learning from her own experience. Teacher couldn’t say her name. Finally, “Carmen Tortilla” didn’t fit what standard textbooks didn’t include us We...
View ArticleOverlooking Spirituality: Wheatley
Speaker: Brianne Dayley, Texas Tech U “Overlooking Spirituality: Negotiating Criticism and Content of Wheatley and Larsen” critics are not primarily concerned with their writing and race/gender and...
View ArticleLoyalty “Cuthwch and Olwen”
Tracee Roe, Abilene Christian University speaker “Conflicting Loyalty in ‘Cuthwch and Olwen’” oldest known Welsh tale written Post-colonial dissonance Welsh against the Norman control Women all related...
View ArticleOrientalism and Edwin Drood
Speaker: Jasa Rosseau, Dallas Baptist U “Charles Dickens’ The Mystery of Edwin Drood through the Lens of Orientalism” Indian sepoys attacked British army because made the Hindus create sacrilege by...
View ArticleKing Arthur Holy Days: French Vulgate
Speaker: Mark Patterson, Abilene Christian University “Holidays and Holy Days: The Significance of the Pagan/Christian Calendar in the French Vulgate Account of King Arthur and His Round Table” legend...
View ArticleNational Read a Book Day
September 6 is National Read a Book Day. Feel free to read more than one.
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