‘Prakrit is, like Sanskrit, a literary language’: Infosys Prize 2025 winner Andrew Ollett

The Infosys Prize 2025 in Humanities and Social Sciences was recently awarded to Professor Andrew Ollett, who teaches at the ...
Nippon

In Memory of Tanikawa Shuntarō: A Great Poet and Shaper of Literary Language

Tanikawa Shuntarō, who passed away in November this year, can be said to be Japan’s most popular poet of modern times. Many poets have won acclaim in the country over the past century or so, including ...
Edutopia

Helping Students Understand the Logic Behind Literary Analysis

A high school teacher describes how she teaches her students that disciplinary literacy is more than ‘fancy’ vocabulary.
The Chronicle of Higher Education

The New Modesty in Literary Criticism

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 ...
The Heritage Foundation

Common Core Standards’ Devastating Impact on Literary Study and Analytical Thinking

Since coming to office, the Obama Administration has been intent on standardizing what is taught at each grade level in all of the nation’s schools. It has used its flagship “Race to the Top” ...