Scott Newstok is professor of English and Founding Director of the Pearce Shakespeare Endowment at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. He is the author of How to Think like Shakespeare and the editor of several books, including the forthcoming How to Teach Children, a volume of Montaigne’s essays on education. His closereadingarchive.org preserves over 400,000 words of commentary, documenting what scholars have written about close reading from the prehistory of the modern humanities to the present.