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 ...

One of the momentous developments in criticism in the past two decades has been the revival of the historical method as a way of studying literature, the arts, and the world of ideas. Scholars who ...

What’s the most effective way to approach literature education in the secondary classroom? Reading assigned for hw? Read alouds? Independent reading? I suspect that I’m not alone in my memories of ...

A new book co-authored by Dr. Deborah Vriend Van Duinen of the Hope College education faculty is designed to help middle school and high school teachers enrich students’ learning by exploring themes ...

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 Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Al Aswany explains how one word in Dostoyevsky’s novel The House of the Dead showed him how literature can help us understand one another. The Automobile Club of ...

Political division in American society is at the highest level seen in decades, according to analysis from the Pew Research Center. Historians seeking to understand ideological battles of the past ...