Thanks-i saw this +I quite like some of her work!

Me too! But not done yet.

I’d love to see this. Please could you send?

Strong agree. I’m under contract for a book called ‘what do we teach when we teach literature?’

Plus if they like a writer you don’t know, you get to say: what grabbed you about it, and so learn yourself!

— and for me this brings out the best of what we do, because it’s not about a silly listickle of ‘who’s top?’ but a real dialogue about books, ideas and people.

I get asked this a lot, and I say, with a friendly laugh ‘you can’t ask an English academic that! There are so very many wonderful writers, and my list keeps changing! Who have you read recently that you r liked?’+ then we have a very interesting conversation about whoever/the genre they like —

I’ve just Wikipedia-ed him. He’s been doing lots!

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Half way through!

But - while this has always been true a bit, the current state of this is a relatively new thing (accountability measures, the forms of pedagogy inspired by powerful knowledge and their mismatch to English, the high stakes of the exams etc)

Ps there a thousands of ways of teaching shax in different ways! There’s an enormous amount of resources offering different approaches.

I don’t think you’d find that this is an “edu heresy” tbh. And fwiw gcse English lit has been significant more… traditional since 2015.

I saw a Middlemarch yesterday!

I saw this and was *very* struck.