Ideas + Materials for Research + Teaching

  • CTV Interview on Roald Dahl

    CTV Interview on Roald Dahl

    I’ve been working on a Roald Dahl project for a couple of years now, based on recent and future teaching — and have written two posts (Roald Dahl’s Stories for Adults and The Roald Not Taken: Teaching the Short Stories) in recent years. But yesterday was my TV news début on the subject of some recent revisions…


  • How to Read Jane Austen’s Emma

    How to Read Jane Austen’s Emma

    “I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like,” Jane Austen declared about Emma Woodhouse, the only heroine of her six novels to earn its title. The first novel in English written in a free indirect style, Emma has the lasting eff…


  • The Open Book Club

    The Open Book Club

    Sign up here. Setting some #2023goals? Want to escape digital distractions into a classic novel or two? Whether you’re an avid reader or you can’t name the last print book you finished, the Open Book Club is here for you. From January to March 2023, you’ll read two short novels — Jane Austen’s Emma (1816)…