Journalist Beth McMurtrie has published a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Ed on college students’ struggles with reading, for which she interviewed me, one of my students, and my department chair (among many others). It is the first article in a series on this important issue.
Unrelatedly, later this summer, I will be giving a keynote address at an online conference on James Hogg’s Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and other literature with demonic themes. My talk, entitled “Faust in the Anthropocene,” will be my first attempt to consolidate some thoughts that have arisen from my “Deals With the Devil” course and that I hope will form the basis of my next major book project.
Adam Kotsko 