Self-disclosures about religious belief, race-related discomfort, sexual history, or personal trauma are risky strategies for classroom teachers. But the relevant question is not whether those topics are inherently inappropriate; instead, the question is whether any particular disclosure on one of those topics helps rather than hinders that…

On the third floor of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), in Washington, D.C., inside a glass case, lie thousands of shoes. Old and mismatched, moldering after sixty years, they are what remains of countless Jews who were told to disrobe and who were subsequently murdered at Majdanek, Poland, during the final years of the…

For the past twenty years or so, the author has been fortunate to write for a fairly broad audience. While he was teaching, or running an educational program, or doing research, he was also composing opinion pieces or commentaries about the work he was doing. This process of writing with part of his attention on the classroom or research site and…

Provides a set of criteria for acceptable use of the comma splice. (DD)

Revised version of a paper presented at Conference on Comparative Literature (4th, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, April 16-17, 1970). (Editor/RD)