  {"id":209548,"date":"2025-02-17T14:16:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T19:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/?p=209548"},"modified":"2025-02-17T14:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T19:16:23","slug":"montclairs-english-prof-lee-behlman-co-hosts-podcast-on-teaching-with-alum-nick-hernandez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/2025\/02\/17\/montclairs-english-prof-lee-behlman-co-hosts-podcast-on-teaching-with-alum-nick-hernandez\/","title":{"rendered":"Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ&#8217;s English Prof. Lee Behlman Co-Hosts Podcast on Teaching with Alum Nick Hernandez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2344540\/episodes\/16582028-episode-33-teaching-literature\">this episode<\/a> of The Watchung Booksellers Podcast, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/profilepages\/view_profile.php?username=behlmanl\">Professor Lee Behlman<\/a> and high school English teacher Nick Hernandez talk about their love of literature and teaching it to their students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lee Behlman<\/strong> is a professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/\">English<\/a> at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, where he&#8217;s taught since 2006. He&#8217;s a scholar of Victorian literature and his most recent publication is a 2023 book from Palgrave-Macmillan called <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/watchungbooksellers.com\/item\/cKsHChm-LMhkJpMqPiXmbA\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Victorian Verse: The Poetics of Everyday Life<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>which he co-edited with Olivia Loksing Moy from Lehman College-CUNY. He teaches classes on nineteenth-century poetry and fiction, the Bible as Literature, The Golden Age of Children&#8217;s Literature, and most recently, on Detective and Crime Fiction. He grew up locally in Queens and has been a dedicated customer of Watchung Booksellers since the moment he moved to New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nick Hernandez<\/strong> teaches English at <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mhs.montclair.k12.nj.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ High School<\/a> and loves spending his time rock climbing, playing in a band, and reading. His head is usually in the clouds but he still manages to balance a comically small tea cup on his person throughout the day. His favorite class to teach is dedicated to reading <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.watchungbooksellers.com\/item\/3E_7o5XSdOdSej6T7v3Tlg\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Are Prisons Obsolete?<\/em><\/a> by Angela Davis, kindly provided by a generous <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mfee.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">MFEE grant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2344540\/episodes\/16582028-episode-33-teaching-literature\">LISTEN: Episode 33: Teaching Literature<\/a><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of The Watchung Booksellers Podcast, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ State Professor Lee Behlman and high school English teacher Nick Hernandez talk about their love of literature and teaching it to their students. Lee Behlman is a professor of English at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, where he&#8217;s taught since 2006. 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