English literature - Study & teaching

The academic institutionalisation of English studies is a relatively recent phenomenon, with Oxford University having inaugurated an Honours School of English Language and Literature in…

English at the University of Canterbury has had a long and vigorous tradition. It continues to be an exemplar of vitality within the discipline in…

Leigh Dale's request was straightforward. She wrote, 'I am particularly interested in contributions which analyse the state of teaching and research, in the context of…

Ever since India scented the potential of a global economic order to offer unprecedented educational and employment opportunities to a large proportion of its citizens…

In recent years, both in the United States and the United Kingdom, there has been a good deal of talk about the state of Humanities…

As academics whose teaching and research fall under the lazy umbrella term 'theory' we experienced some of the collateral damage of the 'theory wars' of…

'...literary study (in its broadest sense) draws attention to the importance of words and of narrative, an awareness of their capacity to persuade, to argue…

Teaching occupies a beguiling, often terrifying, and consistently ambiguous space in the life of a Humanities academic. And as the pressures grow for scholars to…

'It is a grave mistake—politically, morally, tactically, strategically pedagogically—in any way to defend poetry by promoting its remoteness or its professional status, such as that…

In my first draft of this discussion of the state of the discipline, I attempted to use the metaphor of vision. This was perhaps not…

The concept of Australian literary studies is becoming increasingly the object of critical debate as exemplified, for instance, by the forum in the previous issue…

This paper draws on interviews conducted as part of the Australian Research Council funded Discovery project Investigating Literary Knowledge in the Making of English Teachers…