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

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…