...Shawn Anthony Christian This essay, focusing on Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes’s 1930 play and infamous literary collaboration, explores the possibilities of combining new digital tools with traditional scholarly approaches to better understand how the multilayered racial discourse...

...Daniel R. Mangiavellano This article makes a case for using MySpace as a pedagogical tool in the survey course. MySpace can draw attention to the kinds of restrictions the collaboration between “literary” and “history” places on how the survey course interprets the past. The article gives detailed...

... for how to involve students in curating digital exhibits using library special collections, to explore the role of literary and popular texts in social change. Such projects offer student opportunities to understand cultural history in more complex ways, to develop the ability to collaborate effectively...

...Kyle Sebastian Vitale Instructors of the literature survey often struggle to help students see past a brisk syllabus toward deeper literary, historical, and cultural concerns. Moreover, surveys often discourage participation and assess more historical knowledge like dates and names. This essay...

...Elizabeth Schirmer; Avilah Getzler This article describes a collaborative effort by faculty at two very different institutions to integrate the study of language change into surveys of early British literature. Using a series of structured assignments, the Word Project engages students directly...

...Robin Dizard This forum essay explores a collaboration between a teacher and a book. Combining autobiography with teaching notes about a variety of colleges (the writer held adjunct appointments in six colleges in fifteen years before joining the Keene State College faculty), the article claims...

...Joan L. Brown Analysis of required reading lists sheds light on the factors that underlie admission to pedagogical canons. These variables can serve as a springboard for collaborative faculty development of pedagogical literary canons. By constructing and enacting criteria-based pedagogical canons...

...Leslie Ritchie; Judith W. Fisher This article charts the collaborative production of a play designed to show that performing literary history enables students' perception of history as process and performance. The play Before & After highlighted conventions of seventeenth-century prologues...

... be seen as an opportunity to rethink the importance of collaboration in literary studies, and the relinquishment of autonomy that accompanies a sense of debt — an enduring sense of commit- ment to the otherness of literature — can end up being surprisingly enabling. Debt in Theory As Michael...

... Tremonte and Racioppi    Postcolonial Literary Studies Meets International Relations  51 But in a heterogeneous group that includes diverse experience, talent, and ability, people’s ‘zones of proximal development’ overlap” (37; see also J. V. Wertsch 1991 and 1998). As such, collaborative...

... it is true that TPC is distinct from other fields, its focus on communication as an instrument of problem solving makes it a powerful tool for interdisciplinary collaboration, particularly within the literary studies classroom. Because of their course outcomes and objectives, teachers of literary...

.... s.c.huggins@tcu.edu k.n.henderson@tcu.edu Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 celebrity authorship collaboration literary networks feminist pedagogy single‐author course In our course evaluations for our cotaught literature course What the Dickens: Celebrity Authorship...

... entails the dif- ficulty in situating one’s arguments not only within the conversation around a certain text or a specific author but also within larger conversations about a period, a genre, or even literary study more generally. The collaborative work that goes into convert...

...     Using MOOs for Classroom Collaboration 263 Works Cited Dasenbrock, Reed Way. 2004. “Toward a Common Market: Arenas of Cooperation in Literary Study.” Profession 2004, 63 – 73. New York: Modern Language Association. Emde, Silke von der, Jeffrey Schneider, and Markus Kötter. 2001. “Technically...

... and to suggest that literature evolved from an early to a later and implicitly more advanced phase. A single-­instructor format for the survey can reinforce students’ perception that the course represents a singularly authoritative overview of the canon and literary analysis. We felt that our collaborative...

... experiences of women, not only through the literary texts but also through the stories of our collaborators. The image of the demure, modest upper-­class white woman was contradicted by stories from women like the divorced entrepreneur who once had a love affair with a famous Hollywood actor...

...     Using MOOs for Classroom Collaboration 263 Works Cited Dasenbrock, Reed Way. 2004. “Toward a Common Market: Arenas of Cooperation in Literary Study.” Profession 2004, 63 – 73. New York: Modern Language Association. Emde, Silke von der, Jeffrey Schneider, and Markus Kötter. 2001. “Technically...

...     Using MOOs for Classroom Collaboration 263 Works Cited Dasenbrock, Reed Way. 2004. “Toward a Common Market: Arenas of Cooperation in Literary Study.” Profession 2004, 63 – 73. New York: Modern Language Association. Emde, Silke von der, Jeffrey Schneider, and Markus Kötter. 2001. “Technically...

... from the literary texts we had read. As our students quickly realized, when one enters the MOO space, one encounters a world of text. As Cynthia Brantley Johnson (2002: n.p.) Jones and Ellis     Using MOOs for Classroom Collaboration 261 wrote, “MOOs, quite simply...

... studied in relation to it: public engagement quickened intellectual engagement in unexpected ways. Needless to say, my own ideas about the humanities, literary study, and the status of literature itself are revised constantly throughout public collaborations. My understanding of intellectual...