Helsingin yliopisto - Englantilainen filologia

Howard Sklar

PhD, Part-time instructor

Room: C520

Telephone national: (09) 191 23415
Telephone international: +358 9 191 23415

E-mail: howard.sklar(at)helsinki.fi

Teaching 2008–2009

Fiction, Ethics and the Significance of Reading (spring 2009)

Doctoral thesis

The Art of Sympathy: Forms of Moral and Emotional Persuasion in Fiction

Research interests

Emotions and literature
Ethics and literature
Empirical study of reader response
American short story
Narrative theory
Representations of disability in literature

Publications

(Forthcoming 2009) “Breaking Bread: The Sympathetic Effects of Sharing Food in The Grapes of Wrath.” In Michael Meyer, ed. The Grapes of Wrath: A Re-Consideration. Amsterdam/ New York: Rodopi.

(2008) “Narrative as Experience: The Pedagogical Implications of Sympathizing with Fictional Characters.” Partial Answers 6:2.

(2008) “Sympathy as Self-Discovery: The Significance of Caring for Others in “Betrayals.” Paradoxa: World Literary Genres (special issue on Ursula K. Le Guin).

(2007) “Reimagining the Teaching of Secondary English.” Review of Jim Burke, The English Teacher’s Companion: A Complete Guide to Classroom, Curriculum, and the Profession. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2003. Pedagogy 7:2.

(2005) “Believable Fictions: The Moral Implications of Story-Based Emotions.” In Harri Veivo, Bo Pettersson, and Merja Polvinen, eds. Cognition and Literary Interpretation in Practice. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press.

Academic homepage

http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/sklar/