A SERIES of free lectures exploring various aspects of English Literature is to get underway next week. Postgraduate students at Durham University have organised the eight-lecture series which is ...

What with the recent announcement of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature (congrats, Doris Lessing!), we’ve lately been reading the New Press’s timely collection of literature-laureate lectures from the ...

I read Jeffrey R. Young’s “The Lectures Are Recorded, So Why Go to Class?” (The Chronicle, May 16) with interest. I have been podcasting my American-literature lectures for over two years now. Rather ...

On January 25, AEI held its third American Dream Lecture, delivered by Northwestern University’s Gary Saul Morson on Russian literature and its enduring resonance. Dr. Morson depicted Russian ...

Mr. Ebenezer Charlton Black, late of the University of Edinburgh, is delivering a course of twenty lectures on English Literature, in Sever 11, on Monday evenings at 7.30. The lectures are open to the ...

Six months after Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature at a ceremony he did not attend, the songwriter has fulfilled the award’s criteria by delivering a lecture on the topic to the Swedish ...

Bob Dylan delivered his Nobel Prize lecture on Monday, just before the deadline, as a celebrated nonconformist should. Although he spoke at length about classic books that inspired him, he declined to ...

The Nobel laureate in literature makes the case that his songs are at least grounded in a literary tradition. Bob Dylan is not overly endowed with humility: “I was heading for the fantastic lights. No ...

The 13th biennial meeting of the Overseas Chinese Women Writers’ Association will open on Oct 25 at Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian province. The meeting will be attended by more than 100 overseas ...

Jeremy Gleick is a sophomore in bioengineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. May 7, 2012 Any system that helps people learn is worthwhile, and online courses definitely help people ...