Teaching Literature

Ben Knights is Emeritus Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Teesside, UK. Until 2011 he was Director of the UK national English Subject Centre (HEA). A graduate of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, his books include Writing Masculinities: Male Narratives in Twentieth-Century Fiction (Palgrave), From Reader to Reader: Theory, Text and Practice in the Study Group, The Listening Reader: Fiction and Poetry for Counsellors and Psychotherapists, and (as editor) Masculinities in Text and Teaching (Palgrave).

• 1. Ben Knights, Introduction: Teaching? Literature?.- 2. Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Contrasts: Teaching English in British and American Universities