Teaching Literature

In class Inspired Rant conversation. Readings (for reference): “The Data Is In: Performative Hardassery Is Not Good Teaching” by Kevin Gannon “Against Cop Shit” by Kevin Moro “Dear Student” by Jesse Stommel “Beyond Rigor” by Pete Rorabaugh, Sean Michael Morris, and Jesse Stommel “Designing for Fatigue” by Nic Helms, Cait Kirby, and Asia Merrill “Why… Continue reading Week 16: Teaching Literature in 2022

In class: Sydney Fritts’ teaching demo: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild https://www.zelda.com/about/ – scroll to read a little about the franchise, and click through the timeline at the bottom! (It’s short I promise) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAu_TEeVegU&list=PL-7t9DoIELCSM4AxgfM2xtTbUO8rCYb0w&index=6 Electronic Literature: Discuss: “Redshift and Portalmetal” by Micha Cárdenas “While Chopping Red Peppers” by Megan Sapnar “Enigma n”… Continue reading Week 15: Teaching Electronic Literature and Video Games

In class Jessie Gada’s teaching demo (complete in order): Explore Album Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys from My Chemical Romance Watch Music Videos Na Na Na SING The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: California from Dark Horse (in shared folder) Discussion of Theoretical Readings: Multimodality (handout) – (multimodal memes, example)… Continue reading Week 14: Teaching Comics and Multimodal Literature

In class Sophia Donadio’s teaching demo: Select texts on colonialism: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o “Decolonizing the Mind” Gabriel García Márquez “The Autumn of the Patriarch” James Baldwin “Stranger in a Village”  Hala Alyan from Hijra “The Letter Home” Discussion of World Literature: Jorge Luis Borges, “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote“ “A World of Literature“ Concrete… Continue reading Week 13: Teaching World Literature

In class Readings: Susan Robertson’s teaching demo: Chapters 1-6 from Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng https://nidaulhusna0402.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/everything-i-never-told-you.pdf Discussion of Not light, but fire: How to lead meaningful race conversations in the classroom. (link to ebook). Reflections: Briefly describe your experience of being in a successful and a not successful race conversation in class.… Continue reading Week 12: Teaching Diversity and Anti Racist Pedagogy

In class Rebeccah Williams’ teaching demo: “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates (1966)” “It’s all over now, Baby Blue” by Bob Dylan Reid Coffey’s teaching demo: “Goblin Market” by Christina Rosetti Discussion: teaching national traditions Syllabus workshop Sharing course topics Peer discussion of syllabi Final Q&A Assignment for Next… Continue reading Week 11: Teaching American and British Literature

In class: Presentations on Course Materials (folder): Introduction to Literature courses British Literature courses American Literature courses Ethnic American Literature courses World Literature courses Special Topic Literature courses Discussion of literary canon, decolonizing syllabi, and selecting primary and secondary materials for courses. Resources: Kolbas, E. Dean. Critical theory and the literary canon. Routledge, 2001. W.W. Norton… Continue reading Week 10: Choosing Course Materials

In class Candace Myers’ teaching demo: The Passionate Shepherd To His Love The Nymph’s Reply To The Shepherd Poems and poetic traditions: Elizabethan Poetry William Shakespeare Sonnet 130 Restoration Poetry Alexander Pope’s “An Essay on Criticism,” Part 1 Romanticism Walt Whitman “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer“ Victorian Poetry Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “[How do I… Continue reading Week 8: Teaching Poetic Traditions