...K. Shannon Howard Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble has the reputation of being a difficult book to read and teach. This project shows how compositionists may help theory teachers approach Butler from a rhetorical lens. This lens calls attention to the conversational moves in Butler’s writing and how...

... of teaching a first-year writing course on the theme of masculinity. The gender imbalance of this class, with a majority of male students, combined with the course theme, contributed to an environment that raised unanticipated questions, which prompted the reconsideration of the intersections of critical...

...Glenn Michael Gordon How to Teach Gender to Students Who Didn t Know They Had One Glenn Michael Gordon In a 2017 Inside Higher Ed essay, Hallie Lieberman described how she got a group of straight male college freshmen to take her gender- and sexuality- themed composition class at the University...

... that “reading” the film in terms of gender and genre can not only help students apply modes of textual analysis to narratives in other media but also alert them to the location of such narratives within larger discursive frameworks of defining national identities. Raazi presents a critical and ideological...

...Rob Faunce Ruminating on the work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick around failed pedagogy and a confused cat, I consider ways to provoke new streams of critical thought in my composition students around issues of gender and sexuality without “pointing.” Thinking about Jean Genet's novel Querelle and Rainer...

.... This essay links conversations about teaching in the pandemic to those about gender, race, class, and disability, and to academic labor and faculty fights for better pay and working conditions, shared governance, and academic freedom. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press...

... in discussions on teaching creative writing. Taking into account students' subjectivity as also constituted by the dynamics of collective identities such as those suggested by the terms gender, race, ethnicity , and so forth, the essay offers examples of workshop strategies that encourage dialogic voicing...

... the Margins; Honoring Creative Nonfiction; Understanding Class, Culture, Gender, and Race; Mentoring Preservice Teachers; Incorporating Technology; Constructing Academic Arguments; Teaching Non-English Majors; Highlighting Effective Methods; and Showcasing Subdisciplines...

... and talk about the politics of transcription, gender, and race. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Bacon, Jacqueline. 2002 . The Humblest May Stand Forth: Rhetorics, Empowerment, and Abolition . Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. Butler, Mary G., ed. 2006. “The Words of Truth...

..., epilogues, and gendered theatrical performance techniques through students' performances and participation in a postproduction survey. Works Cited Aston Elaine . 2005 [ 1995 ]. An Introduction to Feminism and Theatre . New York : Routledge . Barnett Dene . 1987 . The Practices...

...Julie M. Barst Students can sometimes be resistant to discussing issues of diversity in the English classroom, making it a challenge for instructors to hold honest and enlightening exchanges about race, sexuality, gender, and other facets of human identity. This essay explores various pedagogical...

...Joe Lockard; Jillian Sandell This essay discusses the history of American literature anthologies from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century; examines their racial and gender inclusions and exclusions; and argues that literary anthologies have played an important role...

...Casey Kayser This article discusses the convergence of the perspectives of literary, gender, and regional studies in the implementation of an oral history project as a service-learning requirement in an upper-level southern women's literature course, providing information about the model...

... and the enlivened learning that emerges in the literature classroom from students’ creative and analytical engagements with the diverse voices of modern all-female and cross-gender cast Shakespearean performance. © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Shakespeare pedagogy all-female casting cross-gender...

...Patrick Sullivan The Truman Commission created the modern community college in 1947 to democratize our system of higher education in America. Before this moment, higher education was thoroughly segregated by race, class, and gender. The modern open-admissions two-year college cannot, therefore...

... is a teaching opportunity to address issues of genre, gender, and canonicity. In a larger sense, the articles argue for the potential of pedagogical practice to reconstitute the canon. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 pedagogical approaches long poems canon construction gender genre Works...

.... This article emphasizes the multigeneric quality of Browning's epic and the advantages of presenting its successive layers. The poem functions as a veiled autobiographical narrative of development, a fast-paced novel plot centering on gender and class relationships, and a closet drama utilizing features...

... to if not directly addressed. The evolution of social mores throughout the period reveals how changing economic conditions impact the British class structure, disrupt- ing class-­ and gender-­based traditions, thus foregrounding the adaptation required by the aristocracy if they are to survive twentieth...

... in the Creative Writing Classroom address gender issues, and, in these essays, perhaps the primary concern is how the gendered body, in the gendered creative writing classroom, achieves or abdicates authority. Leahy is a contributor as well as editor, and in her essay “Who Cares — and How: The Value...

... taught my first creative writing workshop. The Essays Many essays in Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom address gender issues, and, in these essays, perhaps the primary concern is how the gendered body, in the gendered creative writing classroom, achieves or abdicates authority. Leahy...