Lives Ruined by Literature: The Theme of Reading in the Novel

In her classes, Professor Judith Ryan teaches students close reading by having them identify the important words in a text as a class. For example, Judith takes a small passage of Kafka and projects it using transparencies. (This could be done with a...

In her classes, Professor Judith Ryan uses colored index cards to initiate discussions. Usually, this occurs after the class has already talked a bit about literary texts or other kinds of cultural materials. Judith hands out the cards and asks the...