Professor of English Eric G. Lorentzen will appear on Virginia Humanities’ With Good Reason radio program Friday, Dec. 20 to discuss how holiday stories shape our experiences – from early classics like A Christmas Carol, The Nutcracker, and The Gift of the Magi to new traditions like How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The With Good Reason […]
Associate Professor of English Eric G. Lorentzen published an article in Dickens Studies Annual on Dickens and education entitled “This Schoolroom is a Nation: Subverting the Catechistic Method in Dickens.”The catechistic method was a popular form of the rote memorization pedagogy which dominated Victorian schools, and sought to keep at-risk learners content with their marginalized social […]
