This weekend I’ll be traveling in Jimmy Buffet’s footsteps, and will find myself down around Biloxi for the Children’s Literature Association conference. I’m presenting another section of the project I’ve been working on, about psychology, pedagogy, and literature in the nineteenth century. I’ve been thinking mostly about fact-based learning and prior knowledge, and that’s that
It’s always nice to find that one’s research bears on topics being covered in non-academic media outlets. While preparing a talk I’ll be giving next week — or rather, while browsing Arts and Letters Daily and procrastinating from said preparation — I came across this article in City Journal, by E. D. Hirsch. For those
With the spring semester starting up, this has been a busy week for me and, I’m sure, for you. So I’ll make this post brief. Coming from a big Ph.D.-granting university, I got used to attending several talks a semester, whether at special events, from visiting scholars, or from professors or graduate students sharing their