Argues that composition cannot be taught apart from reading, that reading means only the reading of great writing, and that the teaching of reading and writing is best handled by people who have studied literature and created some themselves. Offers suggestions for the improvement of the undergraduate English curriculum. (FL)

Offers 11 brief voices, views, positions, moments, and comments on the English teaching profession through the lens of pedagogy and in relation to the emerging postmodern view of literature and criticism. (HB)

Discusses the problems associated with teaching a literature survey course. Outlines a team teaching concept and provides details about an experimental course in which faculty specializing in particular areas serve as guest lecturers. (PRA)

Outlines some of the issues and problems inherent in the group dynamics in the English classroom. Considers how English teachers are part of the group in a classroom and, therefore, are subject to the same predictable anxieties and are reliant on similar coping behaviors. (HB)

Perspective on how English professors and English departments can engage professionally and meaningfully in the education of impoverished children is provided through the recounting of a number of experiences in related situations. A discussion with a college literature class about how best to recruit and instruct college-level black students…