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Reading novels and novelistic narratives is a paradigmatic experience both because of its duration and because in the modern novel we are reading about characters who make experiences that disturb, exhilarate, or shatter them; experiences that they often misunderstand and that we, mixing our daily selves with theirs, understand “for them”. The experience of reading is fueled by the reading of experience; it allows us to give up our selves and, for its duration, have the experience of another. Academic blockage For academic or professional readers, access to the experiential dimension of reading is often blocked. We read for projects, for teaching, for novelty, for confirmation - we read primarily to know. And of course, all of these intentions are necessary and important, and no responsible engagement with literature can be without them. But by neglecting the experience of reading we are neglecting an area in which speaking about literature can make a real contribution to our civic lives. For when we are speaking about our reading experiences we are experiencing diversity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6164bfb6fcf6c2481ea1f304/1636063650002-1DF6CV1WCGEMNSD3ZNPY/unsplash-image-86w7AHeZ424.jpg Approach - Diversity Every experience is singular – strictly speaking, it is not even “my” experience because “I” change in this singular, evolving constellation of subjective and objective factors. Articulating this constellation is a difficult task, not least because we are so used to describe our experiences in the shorthand of feelings. Feelings can be dismissed or even disputed, but an authentic experience cannot. Just as I accept, for the duration of my reading, the otherness of a character’s experience in a novel so I must accept your reading experience as authentic, yet other than mine. This diversity and novelty of experience comes before any agreement in judgments and interpretations we may reach. Encouraging the articulation of this diversity – accepting disagreement, supporting each other in our grasping for language – is the single most important contribution the study of literature can make to academic and civic discourse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6164bfb6fcf6c2481ea1f304/1636069210325-RKTCWJVPOK3OWHWGERQY/unsplash-image-G6o4G6WSGd4.jpg Approach - Writing Reading Where then is this writing about the experience of reading? There are instances and traces here and there, most of them in novels that describe how their characters are transformed by reading and how they struggle to share their experience. There are critics and writers, from Stanley Cavell to Hélène Cixous and Claudia Rankine, who give us access to their reading experiences. For some time now, feminist and anti-racist literary criticism has insisted on including readers’ positionality, if not their experiences, into the discourse on literature. But on the whole, a diverse, experience-based corpus of writing has yet to be created. A new kind of forum. This is what we want to do with this forum - capture the novelty of reading experiences. We want to invite readers – academic or not – to experiment with writing about and sharing their experiences. We want to build an archive of syllabi and teaching experiences that would help us integrate the diversity of experiences in the classroom and in the lecture hall. We would like to hear from academic colleagues about how they integrate experience into the curriculum and how they evaluate it. We would like to build a library of published criticism that has articulated experience. 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