“Love in a Dead Language” by Lee Siegel, and “Blue Angel” by Francine Prose.
‘Disgrace’ by JM Coetzee. Excellent book.
ISTR that ‘End of the world news’ by Anthony Burgess also briefly includes such a theme.
The movie version of “Oleanna” definitely had no affair between the two. And since Mamet directed that as well, it shouldn’t differ much from the original. The sexual harrassment appears to lie entirely within the head of the student.
“The Very Hot Sun in Bermuda,” by Shirley Jackson, is actually about a little twisting of the usual run of these affairs.
Also, The Unbearable Lightness of Being mentions a professor-student relationship.
It’s been years since I read it, but wasn’t there a teacher/student affair in Jane Smiley’s Moo?
As a former English instructor, I can attest that this kind of thing goes on CONSTANTLY in actual departments (no, not with me personally). Most universities have explicit rules against it, and when I started teaching in 1996, we were sternly warned to avoid even a semblance of impropriety; among other things, we were told to leave the office door open during student conferences, and if we thought a student was “unstable,” stationing a fellow instructor within earshot to eavesdrop was recommended as well.
Of course, all of this had as much to do with avoiding sexual harassment suits against the school as with maintaining academic integrity; regardless of the reason for the ban, though, these affairs went on all the time, almost-but-not-quite in public.
As far as British literary fiction is concerned, the key work is surely Bradbury’s The History Man, wherein the title character, Howard Kirk, is surely shagging all of his female students.
Regarding Oleanna, I’ll concur that we’re not meant to conclude that there’s an affair.
While they’re supporting rather than main characters, Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five features a professor-student affair with a 40+ year age difference.
My Tutor and Private Lessons are two Skinemax After Dark bits of cinematic literature.
The letters of Heloise and Abélard?
Yup. Its the same over here. Doesn’t stop lecturers/professors trying to get it on with the grad students however.
Nope. No rules in my institution, apart from the need to declare it so that any work from that student is specifically double marked and moderated.