George Washington University professor of English, Ayanna Thompson, was recently featured in a university department news article that highlights her interpretation of William Shakespeare’s plays in today’s race-relation atmosphere
Topic: Shakespeare
Yale English Majors Not Required to Take Classes about White Male Authors like Shakespeare
Yale English majors aren’t required to take classes about white male authors like Shakespeare or Chaucer, due to objections by a student petition.
‘Trans Identity’ will be a part of a Shakespeare Play in Minnesota Festival
At a Minnesota festival, one of Shakespeare’s plays will be interpreted through a “trans identity” perspective.
University Looks for Professor to Teach Shakespeare with a Side of Social Justice
Teaching Shakespeare with a side of social justice is the new thing at California State-East Bay.
Hidden in Plain Sight: Genuine Scholarship at the MLA
In the days before Wayne Gretzky brought elegance to hockey, a running joke about the sport was, “I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.” Something like this might be said of…
Penn’s English Department Replaced Shakespeare Portrait with Gay Poet, then a Collage of Writers
Is this the right time to tell the Penn English department to ‘get thee to a nunnery’? From The College Fix: Early this month a group of University of Pennsylvania students removed a portrait of…
Reading Room at CSUN has Pictures Changed due to PC Concerns
From the College Fix: “The English Reading Room at California State University Northridge is undergoing a facelift in the name of diversity.”
California High School Teacher Offended by Shakespeare
Obviously, this person doesn’t understand the value of classical English literature. The bad part is that this person is a high school teacher in Sacramento, California whose teaching subject is English.
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