It also highlights what a European might interpret as the main shortcoming of many American-literature classes in the United States -- the failure to place books and people in a larger historical and ...

“What makes good children’s literature?” This is an evolving question that was first posed at the beginning of last fall semester in Eun Chong Yang’s ENG 262 “Children’s Literature” course. Yang, ...

Tufts offers a small amount of Asian-American studies courses each semester, but some students and professors say the options aren't sufficient. The Asian-American Curricular Transformation Project, a ...

A recent Canyon Crest Academy article in the school newspaper announcing that the school would soon offer an ethnic studies class sparked some confusion and alarm. The article’s headline reads “Ethnic ...

As a scholar of Asian American literature, assistant professor of English Lamyu Maria Bo centers her classes around three keywords: “diaspora,” “translation” and “multilingual.” Much of Bo’s teaching ...

Years ago, I was driving up to Niagara University to teach an American literature class. I was trying to come up with another way to determine if my charges had done the reading prior to coming to ...

A Black instructor at the University of Arizona, teaching an Afro-American literature class is suddenly interrupted and accused of being a “”black bigot.”” Ron Welburn, a Black Graduate student from ...

In the nineteen-thirties and forties, young book critics on the make used to crowd outside the office of Malcolm Cowley, the literary editor of The New Republic, in the hopes of his attention.