The Feminist Teacher of Literature: Feminist or Teacher?

LITERATURE teachers; FEMINIST literary criticism; FEMINISM; TEACHER role; LITERATURE studies in universities & colleges

This essay, reprinted from an earlier volume of the journal, discusses the role of feminism in scholarship, questioning how feminism could benefit the discipline of literary studies. Topics addressed include the particular perspective which feminist scholars approach literary works, the potential internal conflict between the roles of being a feminist and being a teacher, and two case studies which illustrate the challenges of feminist literary teaching.