Addresses the problems in discussing nineteenth-century British literature in the classroom and advocates encouraging students to take and support various interpretations of text. (DF)

Presents a 90-item annotated bibliography that supplements Teresa McKenna's bibliographic essay "Immigrants in Our Own Land: A Chicano Literature Review and Pedagogical Assessment" (published in this journal in 1988). Includes sections on anthologies, prose fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction, criticism, and journals. (RS)

Presents a 108-item annotated bibliography of works by Puerto Ricans born and raised in the United States to complement and update Edna Acosta-Belen's "The Literature of Puerto Rican Migration in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography." Includes sections on anthologies, prose fiction, poetry, drama, autobiographies, criticism, and…

Discusses the semester-long experiences of the authors in bringing contemporary critical theory to the English curriculum of a small university. Concludes that theory could be successfully taught to undergraduates. (RS)

Ruminates on and analyzes the author's experiences in teaching the first course in women's literature and feminist criticism at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Asserts that the course brought to consciousness the author's femininity, feminism, and a new understanding of feminist criticism. (MM)

Reviews the literary forms and trends of Chicano literature. Discusses the growing critical canon accompanying the development of this literature, and describes pedagogical approaches to courses and curriculum planning in this area. (SR)

Discusses the findings of an extensive research study of the authors and writing most frequently assigned in college-level English survey courses. Finds that similar historical periods and authors are considered in the survey courses offered by college and university English departments. Finds that traditional authors continue to be taught in…

Identifies the ideas of the good that organize the professional lives of English college faculty. Discusses how these ideas should help faculty to constitute their departments, colleagues, and students. Applies insights from Aristotle's "Rhetoric" to departmental discussions. (HB)

Considers how students are represented in institutional discourse and how students are viewed by their teachers. Outlines historical and current examples of the way students are represented. Calls for a closer examination of the relationship between rhetorical representations of students and reality. (HB)

Examines the relationship between the Ph.D. job market, the social and political marginalization of literary criticism, and the movement toward preprofessionalism and politicization of literary studies among graduate students. Suggests that the poor market has led graduate students toward hyperpoliticization and hyperprofessionalism. (TB)

Explores and describes (from the standpoint of a retired department chair) the paradigm change, one of Copernican proportions, that has occurred in English departments from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. Compares Modern Language Association bulletins from 1978 and from 1994. (TB)

Discusses worthwhile objectives for English teaching and proposes a simple formula: English classes should be classes for reading literature that really is literature and for writing about it in a way that attempts to be literature. (GW)

Presents a brief overview of previous psychoanalytically based theories of Shakespeare's plays, particularly "Hamlet," and defends the notion of introducing undergraduates to psychoanalytically based criticism because of the insights it may give students into their own lives. (JC)

Introduces a student-composed diagram as a means of discussing obstacles and resistances to teaching literature, such as assumptions about what a text is and whether it should be analyzed at all. Discusses a possible structure for the introductory literature course. (TB)

Examines the typical curriculum in an English department and the place of literary and critical theory within it. (SRT)