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How to Teach a Great Tradition

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Wake Forest’s Educating Character Initiative announces $15.6M in new grants to 33 institutions

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“That Difficult Work of Digging”: Jessica Hooten Wilson on Flannery O’Connor’s Final, Unfinished Novel

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Guest on Englewood Review of Books with Karen Swallow Prior and Jen Pollock Michele InterviewsPodcast & Radio Interviews

Guest on Englewood Review of Books with Karen Swallow Prior and Jen Pollock Michele

This episode is all about celebrating and reading great literary works. Jen is joined by first-time guest Jessica Hooten Wilson, as well as repeat guest Karen Swallow Prior, who are both outstanding guides through the world of classic literature. They discuss the value of great…
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January 27, 2023
Totalitarianism and Literature with Michael Matheson Miller on the Moral Imagination Podcast FeaturedInterviewsPodcast & Radio Interviews

Totalitarianism and Literature with Michael Matheson Miller on the Moral Imagination Podcast

In this podcast, Michael Matheson Miller and I discuss how both violence and entertainment and distraction are tools of state control. We discuss Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, some of the writings of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Julia Alvarez’s novel In the Time of Butterflies about…
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January 27, 2023
Misdirected Passion Book Reviews

Misdirected Passion

Perhaps a hundred years ago feels too distant to be relevant. How much more disconnected does seven hundred years ago feel? Yet, when reporters asked Sigrid Undset why she wrote medieval sagas, the Nobel Prize winning novelist answered, “You can only write novels of your…
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April 20, 2021
Episode 2: Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson Talks about Dante’s Divine Comedy and Hop‪e‬ Podcast & Radio Interviews

Episode 2: Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson Talks about Dante’s Divine Comedy and Hop‪e‬

In episode 2 of Guardians of Beauty, Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson — the Louise Cowan Scholar in Residence at the University of Dallas in the Classical Education and Humanities Graduate Program —talks about Dante Alighieri, widely regarded as one of Italy’s greatest poets, who wrote The Divine Comedy.…
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April 13, 2021