In this video, I briefly explain how to use Mendeley's Literature Search tool to find specific peer-reviewed journal articles FAST.

C.S. Lewis, widely known for his children's series The Chronicles of Narnia, composed a number of fantastic poems - "The Future of Forestry" being my personal favorite. In it, Lewis imagines an England devoid of trees. This desolation is...

This video features a discussion of the use of movement and music in storytelling. They explain how movement can give space to a story and convey emotions and experiences, and shares examples from their work as a choreographer for a...

Get to know the story behind some of literature's most iconic book covers in the latest episode of It's Lit!

ERNEST MORRELL is the Macy Professor of Education and Director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME) at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is also a Class of 2014 Fellow of the American Educational Research...

A summary, reading, and analysis of Edna St. Vincent Millay's "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why." The title alone could have its own video, so please don't take this as an exhaustive study. But, if you're confused by the...

A close reading of Adrienne Rich's classic poem "Power"

Everyone just knows that violence is on the rise, especially among kids. Everyone just knows that violent video games have something to do with it. Except violence isn't on the rise, as we showed in our "Sky isn't falling episode". And...

Often regarded as one of the most beautiful and famous poems of all time, "She Walks in Beauty" has featured in films like The Dead Poet's Society and shows like White Collar. Inevitably, the character reciting the poem does one thing:...

Has racist thinking discouraged us from looking at how sophisticated West African empires were before the Europeans arrived? How did trade mesh with a rise in inequality between Africa and the Europeans? West Africa Before the Europeans,...

By using William Wordsworth's famous poem we seek to draw the distinction between author and speaker and determine which one was in love with the mysterious Lucy.

In this reading, summary, and analysis we'll look at Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress." At nearly 400 years old, the poem remains surprisingly relevant, funny, and uncomfortable.

You might being asking yourself-- Why do ghostwriters even exist? Isn’t that cheating? Isn’t literature supposed to be the result of one person’s agonizing need to create? Aren’t books supposed to be the blood, sweat, and tears of the...

The third video in our series on poetic devices, in this video will look at how poets use line breaks to create meter and music in their poetry. We'll also examine how to write about them as well as a clever usage from early pop-punk music.

The 3 Ms of Fantasy; Mythology, Medievalism and Magic and The Lord of The Rings. This is part 1 from the series 'Rings, King and Things'.

Why would a poet use ambiguity? What do I do if I can't figure out what an image means? How come these words are haunting my dreams? All of these questions and more are addressed in this reading, summary, and analysis of Louis Gluck's...

Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff tell the history of financial crisis as a tale of excessive public debt. But what more commonly drives financial instability, says Moritz Schularick, is excessive private debt. Financial crises are...

Dr. Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic and Italian Studies from the University of British Columbia; a M.A. in Spanish Language and Peninsular and Latin American literatures; and a B.A. in General Studies & Spanish...

So the title's in French, the pronouns are separated from the antecedents, and some horse is scratching its butt...While Auden asks a lot of his readers, those that take the time to work through the poem often find it fascinating....

It was published nine years before a shot was fired. And was written by a woman. How did Uncle Tom’s Cabin fan the flames of the American Civil War?

The second video in our series on poetic devices, in this video will look at repetition at the start of words: alliteration. By using examples from famous poets as well as the breakfast aisle, we'll look at how to identify and use...

Dr. Gustafson is currently an associate professor in the Elementary Education Department within the School of Teacher Education and Leadership. In addition to teaching a variety of methods courses, she also serves as the cohort leader...

C.S. Lewis part 5 of 11: This video explores the history of C.S. Lewis' family in Ireland, tracing back to the 17th century plantation of Ulster and the Hamilton family's involvement. It also highlights how Belfast's shipbuilding...

Although we are currently living through a pandemic that has disrupted our lives and will shape the course of humanity, pandemics have been around since the dawn of civilization, as have stories about fictional pandemics. So now seems...