Lancashire (English, U. of Toronto, Canada) assembles 27 essays that examine issues in teaching language and literature courses online. Educators teaching the subjects in the US and Canada offer stories about their experiences with online pedagogies, including the use of specific technologies like multimedia websites, cyberplay and gaming, bulletin boards, chat rooms, blogs, wikis, natural language processing, podcasting, course management systems, annotated electronic editions, and text-analysis tools, in specific courses like ancient world literature, Shakespeare, modern poetry, and a variety of languages. They also present overviews of online education for these disciplines, models for first-time teachers, pedagogical issues, and blended and open-source courses. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)