Yale English majors aren’t required to take classes about white male authors like Shakespeare or Chaucer, due to objections by a student petition.
Topic: William Shakespeare
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…
Penn Students Tear Down Portrait of Shakespeare in the Name of Diversity
This is very politically correct to tear down a portrait of one of the more renowned poets in history, William Shakespeare, in favor of a gay poet.
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.”
The Decline of English Departments
The John William Pope Center’s Jay Schalin recently published a report detailing the decline of America’s college English departments. More and more, traditional English literature classes and other similar icons of the English language in…
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.