..., Textuality:The Cultural Work of Plagiarism.” College English 62 : 473 -91. Iwanicki, Christine E. 1994 . The Materiality of Language: Implications for Pedagogy, Literary Theory, and Literacy . Ph.D. diss., Indiana University. Johnson, Barbara. 1980 . “Melville's Fist: The Execution of Billy Budd...

... erence . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture Volume 5, Number 2, © 2005 Duke University Press 195 Uncommon Ground: Narcissistic Reading and Material Racism Barbara Schneider Admitted to a large, urban...

... University Press 79 A Material Pedagogy: Lessons from Early-Twentieth-Century Domestic Arts Curricula Liz Rohan In 1917 Olive Elrich of the Free Sewing Machine Company wrote to the dean of the home economics department at Michigan State University, following up on a business transaction. The school had...

... Renaissance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. doi 10.1215/15314200-2845081 The Material Wallace Thurman Teaching The Blacker the Berry in the Supposed “Postracial” Age Clark Barwick Does the “Harlem Renaissance” remain useful as a literary and cultural category? I pose...

...Jenny C. Bledsoe This article explores how to incorporate medieval materials, such as vellum and goose feather quills, in writing-focused courses. Through reflective writing, students link the tactile experience of medieval materials to their emerging understanding of their own writing processes...

...Amy Gore; Glenn Koelling As digital tools radically alter the ways instructors teach and students learn, the material resources of special collections offer an opportunity to reflect on the pedagogical differences between online and material instruction. The authors theorize that an embodied...

...Jerry Farber Responding to evidence of a steep decline in the reading of poetry, this article advocates a set of broad principles for poetry teaching that address the aesthetic function and materiality of poetry, and argues for a dialectic relationship in the poetry classroom between thoughtful...

...Carolyn Kraus In assigning her university memoir-writing class to locate documents of significance to their lives as a starting point for composing personal essays, this teacher compelled her students to search outside themselves for material—in effect, to undertake research in a genre that many...

...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...

...Andrew Elfenbein Academics have inherited conventions for the presentation of literature in anthologies that do not take into account difficulties in comprehension that undergraduates have with difficult material, such as Romantic poetry. This article describes two experimental surveys given...

... develop awareness of their own and others’ materiality and become more reflective digital citizens. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 mindfulness literacy attention writing materiality digital Works Cited Arola Kristin L. Wysocki Anne Frances . 2012 . Composing...

...Dawn M. Vernooy-Epp This article proposes a strategy for teaching students about periodization, canonicity, and recovery work. It assigns Mary Darby Robinson's reading list as course material in women's literature as well as in Romantic-period classes and other kinds of eighteenth- and nineteenth...

... shows that advanced as well as uncertain students can and will master difficult material, provided the teacher is willing—-and brave enough—to learn anew. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Baird, Theodore. 1999 . The Most of It: Essays on Language and the Imagination , ed. William H...

...Shari Stenberg This article argues for a pedagogy that attends to emotion as a crucial, epistemological component of rhetorical education. After exploring dominant cultural tropes for understanding emotion, I examine examples of how these discourses materialize in popular culture. I then draw from...

...James P. Purdy; Joyce R. Walker This article argues that prevailing approaches to research instruction in introductory composition courses, as represented in print and digital instructional materials, reflect outdated theoretical views and may damage students’ researcher identity. Teaching research...

... thinking skills, opportunities for lessons in rhetoric and audience awareness) and drawbacks (self-imposed silence, fear of writing beyond clichéd responses to difficult questions) that controversial material can bring to the writing seminar. After comparing the results of student writing in two course...

... in reading, and for imagining reading as pure. As an antidote to this decade of advice, the article argues for (and demonstrates) an “impure” reading of visual-material texts that demand a reader's tactile engagement and self-aware participation in time. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 reading...

... nonverbal, to talk and communicate have inspired me to create strategies that help students review grammatical material for exams in a highly effective way. Teaching, I have learned, can happen in the absence of speech. My research about the history of the treatment of individuals with intellectual...

... that incorporating Downton Abbey and related social media to the study of novels of the early twentieth century enlivens the material, motivating students to enter into a period of history through its literature in service of not only increased historical and literary knowledge but also a more nuanced understanding...