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 ...

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 ...

Alex Bacalja is affiliated with the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English, and is Victoria's delegate to the Australian Association for the Teaching of English. Debates about what books ...