Cathy Wilson

Good teaching-even great teaching-can fail because of one thing, one unbeatable thing, and it has nothing to do with how well you teach or how committed your students may be. Instead, it has to do with the chemistry of the brain. We can agree that most of us are stressed-students and teachers alike. And when, we are stressed, the brain produces chemicals that block the channels to learning and remembering. These chemicals stay forever. There is only...

"In 1980, deconstructive and psychoanalytic literary theorist Barbara Johnson wrote an essay on Mary Shelley for a colloquium on the writings of Jacques Derrida. The essay marked the beginning of Johnson's lifelong interest in Shelley as well as her first foray into the field of 'women's studies,' one of whose commitments was the rediscovery and analysis of works by women writers previously excluded from the academic canon. Indeed, the last book Johnson...