January 17, 2003

What Teaching Literature Should Really Mean

By ELAINE SHOWALTER

It's always risky to make predictions, especially optimistic ones; but I've noticed that one of the salutary debates emerging in the new century regarding literary studies -- and by extension the humanities in general -- is a call for teaching as scholarship. That is, teaching as intellectual work, which can be discussed, reviewed, critiqued, adapted, and built upon by peers. Part of that includes a belated recognition that the way people teach is related to what they teach; generic

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