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... as someone who teaches old literature no one is interested in and that is doomed to disappear? It is too bad you are not my age because you will not retire soon. In the meantime, what will you do to attract students?” I smile back: my classes are actually full and I am finishing a book that precisely answers...

...Shirin A. Khanmohamadi Karina F. Attar and Lynn Shutters (eds). Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2014 . Pp. 253 . Copyright © 2015 The Trustees of Columbia University 2015 200 BOOK REVIEWS Karina F. Attar...

... of the manuscript. To interpret a text critically is to acknowledge and to examine also how a manuscript or print edition orients textual interpretation. The editorial history of the Vita nova teaches us about the cultural processes and discourses of literary culture and about Italian literary history. Copyright...

... allusive quotations, Dante opposes to the absolute time of Eden the idea of an imperfect time, tied to the pattern of an all-human knowledge, which Dante himself connected to the teaching and character of Brunetto Latini. Copyright © 2021 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York...

...Gemma Tidman Abstract This article explores the women’s interventions in an overlooked eighteenth-century quarrel about how to reform literary teaching in the boys’ collèges . It begins by introducing this quarrel, here called the querelle des collèges , that involved more than 120 actors, just 3...

.... More importantly, this article aims to recover what Stendhal still has to teach present-day philosophers and critics about judgments of taste. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2022 Stendhal Friedrich Nietzsche...

... normal” environment, while striving to increase enrollment numbers in French, we ought to pivot our programs toward global education in French. This refocusing will help us revisit why , what , and how we teach. We can find inspiration in Kevin M. Gannon’s book, Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto...

... teaching practices. It seemed necessary for French studies teachers to take into consideration all aspects of the colonial system and the ways they still impact former colonized territories. The popularization of the new designation of “French and Francophone studies” signals an important shift. French...

...Isabelle Demarte Mentoring—as an example of dialogic, horizontal dynamics—is at the core of our profession. And if it isn’t, I believe it should be. I argue in favor of mentoring as teaching as a feminist “ethics of care” that aligns with how gender studies have shaped its emergence...

... the sort of proprietary, hierarchical gesture that Ross shunned in his teaching, in his writings, and in his seemingly boundless support for anyone who needed it. Even worse, legacy implies that one may have incurred some kind of debt ­toward him, a thought that never failed to infuriate him a­ nd...

..., through our teaching, through our writing, through our actions. We, many of us, most of us participating in this memorial issue for Ross, are fortunate to be teaching and writing. H­ ere we can make a difference. Critical thinking is sorely lacking in public discourse t­hese days; let us hope we can...

.... Assembled here are the opinions of free-minded individuals who entered and have experienced the field in greatly differing ways and whose research and teaching have been influenced by personal preferences, institutional constraints, and students’ needs and wishes. Still, a few faint throughlines are visible...

... guerre est dans son cœur; Ses paroles sont plus onctueuses que l’huile, Mais ce sont des épées nues —Psaume 55:21 When I began to teach college French a quarter century ago, my department was one of several traditionally large units in the humanities division of our undergraduate institution...

... it means. Exactly what can we do with DH in French? How can it help with research and teaching? What makes it a game changer for the learning experience? Those are genuine questions: DH provide tremendous opportunities for world language departments to grow and become more attractive to digital learners...

... is any exception. Yet the question posed to contributors to this volume (“What should we be doing”?) is clearly a crucial one in our current moment. It offers an important invitation to identify and examine the values that are implicit in the day-to-day practice of our teaching, research...

... the following: "Next year I am teaching a course called "European Fiction" (XIX and XX c What English writers (novels or short stories) would you suggest? I must have at least two. Am going to lean heavily on the Russians, at least five broad-shouldered Russians, and shall probably choose Kafka, Flaubert...

... Richard . New York : Grove , 2008 . hooks bell . Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom . London : Routledge , 2014 . Mabanckou Alain , and Thomas Dominic . “ Pourquoi a-t-on si peur des études postcoloniales en France? ” L’Express , January 16...

... the object of any conference since the 2001 colloquium in his honor? Perhaps if scholars who liked, disliked, agreed, and disagreed with him were not invited to cite their published work, but their memories, something new might be said. Riffaterre's style of teaching has certainly left an indelible...

... personally known Michael Riffaterre from the time, in 1953, when he set foot on American soil as a doctoral candidate until his retirement as University Professor in 2004. In those early days, we took some of the same graduate courses and began teaching at the same time, sharing the two sections of the same...