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The national debate over the new Common Core’s English language standards, and over whether and how the new standards should be implemented in the schools, is of great importance to educators and the general public. The role of literature and … Continue reading →

A local meeting of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers Wednesday 24 April 2013 Editorial Institute, 143 Bay State Road, 5 p.m. – 6.45 p.m. Wine. Laura Quinney (Brandeis): Time and Enjambment in W.S. Merwin. Please let us … Continue reading →

There have been some slight changes to the 2013 conference program, specifically to the schedule. An updated version of the program with the correct times will be available at the registration table.

The Holiday Inn Athens has extended the cut-off date for the conference rate until Monday March 25 at midnight. After that date rooms will not be available at the conference rate and may not be available in Athens. Please make … Continue reading →

The Battersea Review #2, edited by ALSCW manager Ben Mazer, and featuring poetry by Literary Imagination editor Saskia Hamilton, among many other works of poetry and criticism, is now published online, and may be read here: http://thebatterseareview.com/

Literary Matters Issue 5.4 is now available for your reading pleasure on the Literary Matters page of the ALSCW website, or right here in this useful link. This special issue contains the four winning submissions for this year’s Meringoff Awards, … Continue reading →

A rave review of ALSCW Immediate Past President John Burt’s new book, Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism (Harvard U.P.), was featured on the front page of this week’s Sunday New York Times Book Review. A link to the review is available here. … Continue reading →

Please join us on February 6 at 5pm for the next ALSCW Local Meeting. Kate Womersley will talk on “Beckett’s Funny Turns.” After reading English at Cambridge, Kate Womersley came to Harvard for a Master’s in History of Science. She … Continue reading →

Dear friends and members of the ALSCW, A very Happy New Year to you all. I am pleased to announce the release of Literary Matters 5.3. I hope that the pieces contained within stir you, provoke further thought, and spark … Continue reading →

December 31, 2012: ‘A few months later, the Council on Foreign Relations published another instrumentalist analysis, equally uncomprehending about the horizons of the classroom, called “U.S. Education Reform and National Security,” which proposed, among other things, that the liberal arts … Continue reading →