Teaching Literature

1. Introduction: Teaching? Literature?
Ben Knights

2. Contrasts: Teaching English in British and American Universities
Gretchen H. Gerzina

3. Transition and Discontinuity: Pitfalls and Opportunities in the Move to University English Universities
Andrew Green, Gary Snapper

4. The Shame of Teaching (English)
Rosie Miles

5. Transition into the Profession: Accuracy, Sincerity and ‘Disciplinary Consciousness’
Robert Eaglestone

6. ‘Getting in Conversation’: Teaching African American Literature and Training Critical Thinkers
Nicole King

7. Beyond the Essay? Assessment and English Literature
Jonathan Gibson

8. Critical or Creative? Teaching Crossover Writing in English Studies
Chris Thurgar-Dawson

9. Teaching ‘Literature+’: Digital Humanities Hybrid Courses in the Era of MOOCs
Alan Liu

10. Teaching Stylistics: Foregrounding in E.E. Cummings
Dan McIntyre, Lesley Jeffries

11. Teaching Historically: Some Limits to Historicist Teaching
Simon Dentith

12. Towards an Unprecedented Ecocritical Pedagogy
Greg Garrard

13. Opening up the Seminar: Children’s Literature, a Case Study
Pamela Knights

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Teaching and Teacher Education