I have a vivid memory of one of my first meaningful failures as a high school English teacher. I was convinced I could recreate the same kind of inspirational experience I had experienced in the ...

When students use playful materials to build a physical object that represents their thinking, they grapple with texts in new ...

Literary criticism once had an outsize reach, influencing the terms and concepts of disciplines like art and legal studies. With it came an outsize ego. During the 1970s and 80s, the heyday of ...

Unlike film and stage, the act of literary production is an exercise in isolation. No matter how closely and devotedly a writer is concerned about his or her surroundings, he or she requires a certain ...

A couple of weeks ago, I attended an interdisciplinary seminar featuring work in progress on law and humanities. After the guest presenter finished reading his chapter draft, the floor opened for ...

School Literature menu should be balanced and all inclusive. This is the thesis of Abenea Ndago’s article ‘Study books relevant but lack Kenyan face’ in The Standard On Saturday December 8. Yet ...