Professors are re-evaluating how they approach teaching the work of Alice Munro following revelations the writer protected her husband after learning he had sexually abused her daughter.
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"Over the coming weeks, I will grapple with the complicated process of assessing what it means for Alice Munro's legacy. I intend to discuss that process with my students, but I genuinely don't yet know what form that discussion will take."The London, Ont., institution where Jones works is also in the early stages of processing.
Those ties include an Alice Munro Chair in Creativity, a position created in 2018 to "lead the creative culture" of the arts and humanities faculty. Robert Lecker, an English professor at Montreal's McGill University, has long included Munro's work in his syllabuses, but last year taught a class entirely focused on her for the first time.
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