Our Mission
Giving to the ALSC
The ALSC has the following goals:
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to provide space for encounters between scholars, critics, editors, and teachers, and fiction writers, poets, playwrights and screenwriters;
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to foster connections between the academic study of literature and the wider literary culture extending beyond the academy;
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to sponsor and disseminate studies of curriculum and wider topics relating to literature (such as the teaching of composition, and the reading habits of citizens);
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to create links between the teaching of literature in primary and secondary schools, and instruction in colleges and universities;
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to encourage debate and exchange between scholars of ancient and modern literatures, and between Western and Asian literatures;
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to explore the literary dimensions of other arts; film, drama, painting, and music;
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to insist upon the literary nature of the teaching of literature.
The Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
650 Beacon Street, Suite 510
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Phone: (617) 358-1990 | Fax: (617) 358-1995
E-mail: alsc@bu.edu
Copyright © 1995-2009 Association of Literary Scholars and Critics