...Stephanie Foote This essay explores the challenges of teaching a large introductory lecture class in the humanities. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Armstrong, Nancy. 2005 . How Novels Think . New York: Columbia University Press. Balliett, Karen. 2008 . “Learning How to Read...

...Theresa Tinkle; Daphna Atias; Ruth M. McAdams; Cordelia Zukerman This article presents the authors’ innovative approach to the challenges of teaching students in a large lecture survey course to perform effective close readings, and sets forth a rigorous qualitative assessment of students’ learning...

..., and M. Gilbert. 1998 . “Physics Lecturing with Audience Paced Feedback.” American Journal of Physics 66 : 439 -41. Stuart, S. A. J., M. I. Brown, and S. W. Draper. 2004 . “Using an Electronic Voting System in Logic Lectures: One Practitioner's Application.” Journal of Computer Assisted...

... are comments from several of the full-time lecturers who participated in these discussion groups as both members and leaders. The essay makes visible the competing tensions inherent in fostering professional development through such a structure, especially the complications involved in turning lecturers...

...Melissa Conway This article outlines a twenty-minute introduction to medieval manuscripts in the age of Dante, using a combination of Internet resources for the study of medieval manuscripts and actual medieval manuscripts. The goal of the lecture is to introduce students to the basics...

...John Boe John Boe responds to David Bartholomae's “Teaching On and Off the Tenure Track: Highlights from the ADE Survey of Staffing Patterns in English.” Using his experience in a thirty-year career as a nontenured lecturer, the author addresses the discrimination lecturers face even in the most...

... be a problematic context for the graphic novel, especially in large lecture spaces, with their unimodal, instructor-centered design. The experience of teaching graphic novels in an active learning classroom suggests that a multimodal approach placed in a learning space designed for multimodal approaches can...

...Kristen McDermott While there is ample evidence that students in higher education benefit from an instructor’s judicious use of humor in lectures and teaching materials, there is less analysis available about the benefits to student critical thinking and communication of making a formal study...

...Bruce Avery Many students in American universities are unable to absorb information from a Shakespeare text in the lecture-discussion format. Consumption of electronic media has both absorbed increasing amounts of their time and encouraged passive modes of learning. My response is to seek...

... emphasize lecturing, content coverage, or scholarly production with a workshop-style focus on writing, teaching, and metacognition. Examples from several graduate classroom experiences are provided. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Graduate seminar pedagogy profession convention lecture...

...Andrew Weeks; Kelsey Forkner; Susan George; Josette Lorig Against the background of available pedagogical advice, this article describes the challenges faced and innovations undertaken in a large lecture-discussion literature class for nonmajor undergraduates. The professor and graduate teachers...

...Elaine Showalter © 2001 Duke University Press 2001 Bickman, Martin. 1995 . “Teaching Teaching:Construction and Reflection in the Classroom.” Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy , nos. 33 -34. Bligh, Donald A. 2000 . What's the Use of Lectures? San...

.... Stewart, J., and C. McCormack. 1997 . “Experiencing and Supporting Change: From Lecture to Interactive Groupwork.” Teaching in Higher Education 2 : 99 -109. Vygotsky, L. S. 1978 . Mind and Society: The Development of Higher Mental Processes . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Wacquant...

..., Charles. 1990 . The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 . New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Reynolds, David. 2000 . “Aural Gratification with Kalem Films: A Case History of Music, Lectures, and Sound Effects, 1907-1917.” Film History 12 : 417 -42. Robinson, David. 1996 . From...

... a complicated but ultimately rewarding game of reading. Ever since the four-­year public lecture series and workshop began in 2012 with George Corbett and Heather Webb’s inaugural lecture at the University of Cambridge, Dante scholars have employed vertical readings to renew interest in and try out new...

... of the International Shakespeare Association, and, most recently, head of library and information resources at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon. Susan Bruce is a senior lecturer at Keele University. She is the editor of Three Early Modern Utopias (1999) and of Shakespeare: King Lear...

...: Hildegard von Bingen and Premodern Medicine . New York : Routledge . von Trotta Margarethe . 2011 . Vision [DVD] . Tele München Fernsch . Teaching off the Literary Grid with Hildegard of Bingen’s Physica Andreea Boboc In his influential lecture “The Two Cultures,” given...

... as though they were in separate mediums. (I still have the pages of meticulously printed, practically word-for-word notes for my very first lecture, given in some senior professor’s advanced composition class. Interestingly, though, the actual memory of giving that particular lecture would appear...

... in an adjoining office. Equally, though, it is apparent that such exchanges are more focused and lasting than tutorial, seminar, lecture, or other face-to-face situations in which exchange is moving past the participants in real time and is subject to the vagaries of daydreaming: the classic “alternative...

...- nectivity, and we can send and receive information to and from the dark side of the world as quickly as to our colleagues in an adjoining office. Equally, though, it is apparent that such exchanges are more focused and lasting than tutorial, seminar, lecture, or other face-to-face situations in which...