...? And are these technologies affecting assignments and student reading patterns in other ways? This article begins by arguing for the relevance of long-form reading and then reviews prior research on how much assigned reading students in higher education report completing. With these findings as background, university faculty...

...Neil Vallelly Literary studies are living a nomadic existence on the margins of the neoliberal university, forced to adapt to the needs of more profitable disciplines and the insidious marketization of higher education to find an intellectual home. By drawing on Rosi Braidotti’s nomadic theory...

... than did women for secondary and higher education. 2. Oberlin had opened its doors to women in 1837, but by 1857 only 20 women had entered the Collegiate Department, while 299 took the ‘‘ladies course’’ instead. Mary Sharp College in Tennessee (1851) may be the first true ‘‘college’’ for women...

... Hardy Journal, the Routledge Companion to Queer Theory and Modernism, and the V21 Collective. His public writ- ing has appeared in Slate, the Nation, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Point, the Hedgehog Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. DanielWilliams is assistant professor...

... “The Decline and Fall of Literature,” NewYork Review of Books , November 4, 32 -38. Dickstein, Morris 2003 “Literary Theory and Historical Understanding,” Chronicle of Higher Education , May 23, B7 . Dionne, Craig 1992 “ Reading New Historicism: A Genealogy of the Theoretical Pretexts...

... Irony and Liberal Hope .” In Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity , 73 – 96 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Roth Michael S. 2010 “ Beyond Critical Thinking .” Chronicle of Higher Education . January 3 . Ryle Gilbert 1971 “ The Thinking of Thoughts: What Is La...

... Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Naomi S. Baron and Anne Mangen's study is also largely empirical and addresses the overarching question of how reading in a digital age compares with earlier modes of reading. 8 Their article focuses on higher education in the United States...

... of Higher Education , November 23, chronicle.com/free/v48/i13/13b00701.htm . Seuss, Diane 2002 “Falling Man,” in Heyen 2002 : 350 . Smith, Dinitia 2001 “The Eerily Intimate Power of Poetry to Console,” New York Times , October 1, www.nytimes.com/2001/10/01/arts/01POEMS.html . Smith, Rosalynne...

... Hegemony and Academic Capitalism in Higher Education in Hong Kong .” Journal of Education Policy 25 , no. 2 : 233 – 52 . Clarivate . 2007 “ Master Journal List .” https://mjl.clarivate.com/home (accessed February 26 , 2019 ). Cruz Isagani R. 2008 . “ Challenging ISI Thomson...

...—This Book Makes Me to Think 477 This educational and social crisis has been exacerbated as nongovernmen- tal organizations (NGOs), such as the South African Council on Higher Education (SACHED) and Pro-Matriculation (PROMAT), which had re- sponded to the implosion of the school system after the Soweto...

... the actions and outcomes in the novel, he is also able to reflect upon his own life. Is this behavior typical for a male as opposed to a female reader? Is it typical for a middle-aged man with a higher education and—by traditional standards—an unconventional life (father of two children but never mar...

... components of this space: distance of concepts A and B, varieties of distances (namely, those unique to the concepts themselves and those that are descriptive of higher-order relations), the density of space in which A and B reside, and the nature of such space for concrete and abstract concepts. The authors...

... with pub- lic health and epidemiology. In Poland, the first State Institute of Hygiene was established only in the late 1930s, by which time Jews were already facing restrictions on enrollment in Poland’s system of higher education (Falstein 1963: 105). Nevertheless, the above-mentioned organizations...

... at Strauss’s unusual reading of the culmination of Socrates’s great speech (Diotima on the “higher mysteries”) alongside Alkibiades’s speech in the Symposium as representing Plato’s “poetic presentation of philosophy.” The essay becomes more critical as it proceeds. Strauss’s reading of the Symposium , like...

... that they are not representative of young adults in general! We have to bear in mind that they constitute a select group, as they share a background of higher education and reading motivation. But it is precisely this group that is able to show us how reading can become meaningful. 2.2. Aspects of Autobiographical Memory...

...; and this emperor’s daughter existed h only in the fantasy tales of Rabbi Nahman ben Sim_a of Bratslav, represent- ing a higher reality that is truer than our world of lies can bear. These journeys from the beginning of the nineteenth century inspire many intriguing...

... 21:4 Still, by themselves, all these higher-order discrepancies generally oper- ate to multiply the speaker’s removal and vulnerability visvis the au- thor’s knowing, educated, inventive, artful, literary frame, in supreme con- trol above the drama. Such inequalities are applicable to any...

... , and Meretoja Hanna . 2014 . “ Understanding Narrative Hermeneutics .” Storyworlds 6 , no. 2 : 1 – 27 . Brooks Peter . 2001 . “ Stories Abounding .” The Chronicle of Higher Education , March 3 . https://www.chronicle.com/article/stories-abounding/ . Bruner Jerome . 1991...

... as well: they gained a mass audience only in the second half of the twentieth cen- tury, as a consequence of ‘‘government patronage, the BBC, and the expansion of higher education Andringa • The Reception of Virginia Woolf, 1920–2000 543 foreign, modernist writers in general and how...

... indisputably “varies” according to how “casualty” (i.e., chance or accident) and “intention” (i.e., education) dictate, then in what sense is equality a natural condition? Or more exactly, in what sense is the political theory of equality derivable from cognitive “first principles” or “an essence...