...Margaret M. Strain; Rebecca Potter This essay argues for an interdisciplinary, team-taught approach to the Introduction to Graduate Studies course in which faculty from literary and rhetoric/writing studies model the intersections of both fields through course texts, assignments, and theoretical...

...Bruce Burgett; Cinnamon Hillyard; Ron Krabill; Sarah Leadley; Becky Rosenberg This essay addresses the question of how to best teach interdisciplinarity through a detailed discussion of a common upper-division gateway course for multiple majors housed in an interdisciplinary studies unit. It argues...

... , 45 – 53 . New York : Bedford- St. Martin’s . White E. B. 1941 . A Subtreasury of American Humor . New York : Coward- McCann . comedy satire critical thinking interdisciplinary studies classroom environment Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...

...Colleen M. Tremonte; Linda Racioppi This article investigates the challenges of interdisciplinary teaching that crosses the fields of postcolonial literary studies and international relations. Interdisciplinary courses demand that teachers be able to comprehend, translate, and represent different...

...Alison J. Friedow; Erin E. Blankenship; Jennifer L. Green; Walter W. Stroup This article argues for a more complex understanding of interdisciplinary pedagogy in English studies. Drawing on the authors’ experience designing and coteaching a graduate-level interdisciplinary course in “statistical...

... and the program for interdisciplinary studies. The 2006 – 7 recipient of Wheaton’s Leland Ryken Award for Teach- ing Excellence in the Humanities, Davis teaches writing, world literature, composition theory and pedagogy, and senior seminars in English. Much of his scholarship focuses on ancient rhetorical...

...Annette Lucksinger This piece discusses the use of sense of place as a focal point for studying literature to lead students to consider the complexity of the human relation to the physical world, the universal connections between people and landscapes, and the reciprocal impact...

... . Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press . ———. 1999 . Mapping Interdisciplinary Studies . Washington, DC : American Association of Colleges and Universities . ———. 2004 . “ Prospects for Transdisciplinarity .” Futures 36 : 515 – 26 . ———. 2005 . Humanities, Culture...

... of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education 3 . 3 : 6 – 32 . Edmundson Mark . 2013 . Why Teach? In Defense of a Real Education . New York : Bloomsbury . Hawthorne Joan . 2015 . “Does Assessment Make Colleges Better? Let Me Count the Ways.” Chronicle of Higher Education , 19 August...

...Chris Kreiser The article traces ideas of improvisation in Quintilian’s rhetorical work, presents an interdisciplinary literature review of improvisation studies, and surveys modern disciplines that teach improvisation, all with the goal of implementing these ideas into a first-year, college...

... as the capstone for his interdisciplinary studies major. During his work on that course, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research on Nontraditional Students, he conducted participant observations of adult student life while delving into the existing data set. Stuart thought of the work in relation to his other...

... value of discussing representations of illness and disease across our respective disciplines. Increasingly, various groups have articulated the general value of interdisciplinary studies and the need for scientists to communicate infor- mation more broadly. For instance, in the 2011 American...

... 2002 155 Fadi Akhtar teaches composition, drama, and cultural studies at the University of South Florida, where he is helping to construct and provides instruction for an interdisciplinary-studies pilot program. He is working on a study of the use of humor in English studies pedagogy. Barry...

.... She has won many teaching awards at Purdue, including the prestigious Charles B. Murphy Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching in 2005. Phyllis Benay is associate professor of interdisciplinary studies at Keene State College and directs the Center for Writing and the Calderwood...

...- eval philosophy, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of human nature. He also regularly teaches a course on the Divine Comedy that satisfies an interdisciplinary studies capstone requirement for SXU’s general education curriculum. His current research focuses on the works of Dante and Nicholas...

... interdisciplinary study with Nicholas N. Behm and Peg Cook appeared in the first volume of Teaching Information Literacy and Writing Studies (2018). Chris Kervina is associate professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College, Manassas campus, and a PhD candidate in the George Mason University...

...-­values). We offer a master’s of art in interdisciplinary studies degree and require a team-­taught course blending two disciplines for all students. 2. The verse translations of the Commedia in this essay are those of Allen Mandelbaum (Alighieri 1984, 1986). 3. Dante identifies...

..., and the Environment in the Work of a Cretan Folk Poet.” Journal of American Folklore . ____. Forthcoming. “The Place Within: Scott Russell Sanders on Literature and Art of Place.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment . Bangert, Sandy, and Robert E. Brooke. 2003 . “Inviting Children...

... Peter , 5 – 14 . San Francisco : Jossey-Bass . ———. 2006 . Foreword in Nero 2006 : xiii . Ellis Juniper . 2003 . “ Niugini i Bekim Tok: Creolizing Global English in Papua New Guinean Literature .” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 36.2 : 33 – 52...

...  pedagogy graduates will be doing. Part of what makes English so desirable to so many as a field of study is its breadth and generalist focus. The English field is inter- ested in all aspects of life, and it is by nature interdisciplinary. As such, the English PhD is open to a wide range...