Due to social distancing, teaching has become more challenging nowadays than ever before. Teachers try to search for different resources and use various methods and activities, with the aim to create interesting and adequate educational practices in the online environment. Teaching was moved from educational institutions to the online space, which requires not just an extensive creativity, but mainly additional teaching techniques and materials which enhance educational processes. Even though, literature was considered as an old-fashioned source and was deposed from the pedestal of educational resources decades ago, making space for more contemporary teaching techniques, it announces its comeback in the digital age. Different ways can be employed in order to teach the English language. In our paper, we discuss techniques of teaching English language via literature and its immersion into online education.

To avoid the stigma of societal dissaproval, love for somebody of the same sex has often been hidden from the declinatory views of the public; however, it has also been secretively transcribed into a broad spectrum of art. Virginia Woolf embroidered her homosexuality into the grotesque lines of Orlando. At the time, Woolf was engaged in an intense lesbian relationship with author Vita Sackville-West, who served as a model for the work’s main character. Woolf proclaimed her masterpiece “A Biography”, mirroring the duality of her own and Vita’s character, the perpetual beauty of the book’s hero, enduring for centuries, and his subtle gender transition. In the paper, we discuss some of the homosexual motifs in Orlando, which were formed by different influences, including the queer movement, ancient Greek literature and feminism.