Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Literature

Roxanne M. Kent-Drury is an Associate Professor in the Literature and Language Department at Northern Kentucky University, where she teaches courses in early world literature, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century transatlantic and British literature, and the literature of early exploration and travel. She is also a frequent reviewer for Addison-Wesley-Longman, most recently on its cultural studies-based anthologies of British and world literature. Her publications include articles on exploration and travel, eighteenth-century drama and performance, and professional writing. Most recently, she co-authored a book essay with Gordon Sayre,Robinson Crusoe's Parodic Intertextuality, for the Modern Language Association's Teaching Robinson Crusoe, forthcoming in March 2005.