How is poetry really taught in secondary schools today?
We’re mapping the national picture in England.
English teachers, your professional insight is essential!
5 minute survey: tinyurl.com/238cz6mu
Project supported by Christ Church's Tower Poetry Development Grant
A poster for 'Falling in Love with Love: A History of Popular Romance: An Online Course' including front covers from the following books: Fantomina by Eliza Haywood, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, The Sheik by E M Hull, The Quiet Gentleman by Georgette Heyer, Tabitha in Moonlight by Betty Neels, Indigo by Beverley Jenkins, Hen Fever by Olivia Waite, The Isle of the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri
I'm running a popular romance course at the University of Liverpool... but only if enough people sign up!
Come and join us!
www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...
What’s in an A? Half of @marcusluther.bsky.social’s HS students said “meeting expectations,” and the other half “exceeding expectations.”
Now I want to survey college faculty asking them what an A means.
🚨 A new book review has been published in JPRS!
Qurratulaen Liaqat reviews Javaria Farooqui's (@javariafarooqui.bsky.social) book "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency". Follow the link to read it: doi.org/10.70138/FRC...
#RomanceResearch
Fun with punctuation and caroling
No canons, only archives.
"We have classrooms because you have to learn how to sustain a thought aloud— exposed to others and to your own ineloquence— to see that other people can help you reach where you can’t quite go and to see that you can help others reach better clarity…”
- Lauren Berlant to 20 y.o. about college #Lit
Absolutely riveted by this video of women filmed in the 1970s reminiscing about their young adult life in the 1890s
"I was a feckless girl"
"The mud, everywhere, mud to our knees!"
"Were the ladies on bicycles or horseback?"
youtu.be/pv6V1yHvJyo
Several lines in the image below are highlighted, but the one that jumps out to me isn't: "when you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning."
My "Go ahead, use AI if you want, just tell me what you did at the start of the paper" policy lets me tell a student "I know you didn't use AI, because you said that you didn't, but you've written a paper that sounds just like AI, because..." and really lay into it. Doubly satisfying, really.
Students complained to my husband about not getting the classes they wanted.
He asked if they use Chat GPT in their classes.
They said yes
He said: 'well then it doesn't matter what classes you take since you aren't learning anything's
I'm dead. 💀 Also I married a good one.
Ahoy Academic (English professor) Sky! If I were interested in adding a James Bond novel to one of my syllabi, is there one in particular that gets taught / discussed most often? Dr. No? From Russia With Love?
@journal.transformativeworks.org published an amazing fanzine on the theme of friendships in fandoms. It's really nice to read about what is, essentially, the core and result of many fandoms ! You can read it for free on their website : www.transformativeworks.org/fandom-frien...
#zine #fandom
Question for any romance novel history people out there: does anyone know who might have been the first romance author to write/publish strict dual POV, ie: in equally distributed, alternating chapters? (Or, first-ish, I know tracking firstness in literature is complicated)
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Hey folks. I have spent *days* reading and meticulously drafting comments on a very lengthy manuscript. Which I have just found includes an AI-faked quote. Attributed to ME.
Here is a thread of my feelings
Many people see Dark Romance as an acceptable Romance to like, because it has the qualities of edgy horror and arthouse films and the like. The grimdark stuff that equals quality to so many. It helps them retain their sense of coolness. It’s why it’s the only type of Romance they like.
This should be on a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
email from Elise New to Woody Allen: Dear Woody, Tel: Fax As I know Jeffrey has told you, I really enjoyed our conversation on the plane last spring about William Carlos Williams's "This Is Just to Say." You offered a reading of the poem that seemed to me completely persuasive and plausible and, yet, also, one that is not strictly dictated or delimited by the lines themselves. These are lines that seem to me unusually open to divergent readings-- including, for instance, a reading much more coaxing and seductive; another, much more defensive and manipulative; another, much more about language itself as a mode of sharing. I left our conversation wanting to explore with you the aggressive (or maybe mock aggressive) reading you gave, as well as the way this poem, perhaps more than many, sustains so many readings. You helped me think about Williams's poem as it seems in some ways more like a "script" than a poem, a poem written in such a way as to be turned by different voices in different directions, a poem that might even be "directed" by the reader. I'd love to hear you read the poem again and, if you are willing, to discuss it a bit with me on camera for my upcoming Massive Open Online Course on American poetry.
I have to tell you what really happened to the plums...
Elise New seems to have offered them to Woody Allen in exchange for his involvement with her edX MOOC.
One creepy slimey scammy thing after another in those files.
(via splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app)
The future Pope Leo XIV in 1982.
Joseph Crawford 's written an open access essay which addresses ethical issues he's considered while teaching a course about romantic fiction.
This call may be of interest to our readers!
A trope graphic for An Academic Affair (a blue cartoon cover rom-com featuring images of a white man and woman glaring at each other while holding large stacks of books). The tropes read: enemies to lovers, fake marriage of convenience, one bed, he falls first, academic rivals.
Okay USA, I know you have plenty of other things going on at the moment, but my new book An Academic Affair will be released in your country in only a few weeks (11 November!!), and if you wanted to pre-order it, I would simply love that.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/An-Aca...
Come and study with me! Call for doctoral proposals in the field of Romance and/or Erotica at Falmouth University: www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/phd...
They're so cute! I had no idea!
Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads They Oz you up, your mandyias. They may not mean to, but they do. They give you vast and trunkless legs A sunken shattered visage too. But they were Ozzed up in their turn By Mandyias upon the sand Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command. Oz hands on mandyias to man. Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can Ye mighty and despair yourself
Men seldom make passes
At Ozymandiasses
final project guidelines for both grad and undergrad seminars:
1. pick a topic you care about
2. don’t use ai
3. get smarter
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
what else can we do? what do we want to do? what feels good? (thinking. making, making ideas....) how can I help you know you want to do this stuff? EDUCATION IS THE NONCOERCIVE REARRANGEMENT OF DESIRE and that includes the teacher's (thanks, Spivak)