Award-Winning Teachers on Teaching
Professor Seth Lerer
Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities,
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
"Is Teaching a Calling or a Profession: Teaching Literature in an Uncertain Age"
Thursday, November 20, 2003
This talk will particularly focus on the ways in which literary scholars talk about their work as a "profession" and just what that communicates to our undergraduates, who may come to literature classes for far different reasons.