The Influence of My Students on Fires Burning Underground, a guest post by Nancy McCabe

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FIRES BURNING UNDERGROUND It’s Anny’s first day of middle school and, after years of being homeschooled, her first day of public school ever. In art, Larissa asks what kind of ESP is her favorite: telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, or telekinesis? Tracy asks how she identifies: gay, straight, bi, asexual, pan, trans, or confused? And thus kicks […] The post FIRES BURNING UNDERGROUND, Nancy McCabe EXCERPT appeared first on Women Writers, Wome…

The Influence of My Students on Fires Burning Underground, a guest post by Nancy McCabe

I’ve been teaching college students for 40 years (yikes), and the last ten or fifteen years I’ve seen a radical shift in the way young people think, especially compared to the views I absorbed when I was growing up in the 1970s. As a teenager, I read Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights and found them mesmerizing and romantic. My first clue that things had changed was around 2010, when I taught a class on the Bronte sisters. We all loved Jane Eyre, b…