Teachers appear as characters in a wide range of literary writing. To date, few scholars have systematically studied the teachers who appear in works of literature. Much of the existing work has focused on relatively small numbers of teachers and has been presented in the form of brief essays rather than formal research (e.g., Booth, 2006; Crume, 1989; Shockley, 1971). Other scholars have written longer pieces exploring issues ranging from an exploration of tensions among gender, authority, and desire (Keroes, 1999), to an analysis of teachers who appear as characters in novels written for young adults (Burnaford, 2001; Smedman, 1989), to an examination of race, class, gender, and control in fictional depictions of teachers (Brunner, 1994). However, no one has ever attempted to classify the range of teacher identities that appear in a large and diverse sampling of literary works. In fact, no one has even compiled a relatively well-rounded list of literary teachers--one which spans multiple genres, multiple historical periods, and multiple audience levels. The purpose of this study is therefore to systemically categorize the types of teachers that appear in a broad range of literature, and to define the various identities that are depicted. It is hoped that this important preliminary work will spawn a wide range of future studies into the lives, careers, and identities of literary teachers.