Dr. Merla Wolk
Senior Lecturer - University of Michigan
Professor Wolk teaches the novel from Jane Austen to the present.

She has published on Henry James and on Jewish Women Writers.  What she talks about most these days is her amazing semester--winter 2005--teaching in Italy.

Triple Self-Portrait

Norman Rockwell

an image for "reading the world,"

Robert Scholes
The Crafty Reader

Rockwell's painting, as Scholes argues, goes to the core of what we do when we read and write.
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