Thank you very much, Allan, for this comment. I am...

2009-01-22T20:15:00.000-05:00

Thank you very much, Allan, for this comment. I am glad you found our research worthwhile and, as you say, David Miall and Willie van Peer are very good people to work with. Thanks also for the information about the Changing Lives Through Literature Conference. I hope the conference will be good and, as you say, it would be excellent to hear from you about your empirical work on the CLTL program.

I very much enjoyed the Oatley' et al. article in ...

2009-01-21T13:22:00.000-05:00

I very much enjoyed the Oatley' et al. article in the collection in honour of Van Peer's 60th birthday. I realize now as a graduate student how lucky I was to have taken a course on empirical studies with David Miall and participated in REDES workshops with Willie Van Peer.

As for the article. This is a wonderful synopsis of the work you've been doing. I've followed up on most of its references and, in my MA thesis, I want to link these insights from psychology, scholarship on foregrounding (Miall, Van Peer, etc.), and the work of Changing Lives Through Literature (CLTL) in the US.

Actually, the CLTL annual conference is Feb 26th in Boston. I'm heading for my second year in a row and I'm sure anyone interested in this topic would be welcome. The conference is a day-long conference featuring panel discussion and then updates from programs across the US.

To my knowledge, CLTL hasn't had any scholars look at their work from an empirical perspective in over a decade. I hope to bridge this gap in my thesis.

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Thank you very much, Allan, for this comment. I am...

I very much enjoyed the Oatley' et al. article in ...