The Watchung Booksellers Podcast
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The Watchung Booksellers Podcast
Episode 33: Teaching Literature
In this episode of The Watchung Booksellers Podcast, Montclair State Professor Lee Behlman and high school English teacher Nick Hernandez talk about their love of literature and teaching it to their students.
Lee Behlman is a professor of English at Montclair State University, where he's taught since 2006. He's a scholar of Victorian literature and his most recent publication is a 2023 book from Palgrave-Macmillan called Victorian Verse: The Poetics of Everyday Life, which he co-edited with Olivia Loksing Moy from Lehman College-CUNY. He teaches classes on nineteenth-century poetry and fiction, the Bible as Literature, The Golden Age of Children's Literature, and most recently, on Detective and Crime Fiction. He grew up locally in Queens and has been a dedicated customer of Watchung Booksellers since the moment he moved to New Jersey.
Nick Hernandez teaches English at Montclair High School and loves spending his time rock climbing, playing in a band, and reading. His head is usually in the clouds but he still manages to balance a comically small tea cup on his person throughout the day. His favorite class to teach is dedicated to reading Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis, kindly provided by a generous MFEE grant.
Resources:
The Dakota 38 by Layli Long Soldier
Montclair Fund for Educational Excellence
Books:
A full list of the books and authors mentioned in this episode is available here.
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The Watchung Booksellers Podcast is produced by Kathryn Counsell and Marni Jessup and is recorded at Watchung Booksellers in Montclair, NJ.
The show is edited by Kathryn Counsell.
Original music is composed and performed by Violet Mujica.
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