Posted on September 20, 2016
Are you and your students interested in meeting students and educators from other parts of the globe? Or would you like to read the international literature from WWB Campus along with another (perhaps international) classroom?
Posted on September 09, 2016
“The series of events unfolding in that year still remain vivid in my memory,” writes Wang Dan, former student leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprisings, in his book, Prison Memoirs. The same sentiment shines through in other stories told in the first person, whether or not they describe an equally infamous event.
Posted on August 02, 2016
Every once in a while, an educator will write to us requesting suggestions for literature around a particular topic or theme. We made the list below in response to one of those requests, from a professor interested in the literature of food. To our surprise, we found that food-related literature is a much broader genre than we had ever imagined, encompassing a prisoner’s memoir, a ghost story, and more:
Posted on June 22, 2016
We are very happy with the support we received during our campaign to #InspireGlobalReaders. Thank you to everyone who participated by donating and spreading the word.
Posted on June 06, 2016
“What I like about reading literature from different countries is connection …you have to know about more than what’s right in front of your face.” – Lauren Patterson, LaGuardia Community College
What do you and your students like about reading international literature? How has WWB Campus helped you and your students make connections to other cultures?