I would like to recommend an epistolary pedagogy, to
encourage the use of the letter as a tool for thinking about literature as well as a way
to form learning communities for literary study. Through some examples from my own
experience using letters-- originally with pen and paper and for the past decade with
computers in classrooms and for the past few years as the primary approach for online
classes--I want to suggest to you that writing and reading letters is a valuable way to
teach and to learn literature and that electronic mail facilitates the application of this
epistolary pedagogy.