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...Saradindu Bhattacharya Abstract This article examines the construction of and contestation over the idea of the nation through contemporary popular cinema in India. Building on his experience of discussing the Bollywood spy thriller Raazi (2018) in an English class, the author proposes...

... in the production of the American, and more recently multicultural, national narrative. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Algarín, Miguel, and Miguel Piñero, eds. 1975 . Nuyorican Poetry: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Words and Feelings . New York: Morrow. American Literature. 1993 . “ What Do We...

... of the Modern Language Association , Philadelphia, PA, December . Van Dijk, Teun A. 1997 . Discourse as Social Interaction . London: Sage. Overwhelmed by the World:   Teaching Literature and the Difference   of Nations Rajini Srikanth The premise of this essay is twofold: that we live...

..., David. 1997 . “The Star System in Literary Studies.” PMLA 112 : 85 -100. Woodring, Carl. 1999 . Literature: An Embattled Profession . New York: Columbia University Press. 7C o m m e n t a r y The Two Nations George Levine It will surprise no one when I say that English studies is a nation...

... is that these habits move students toward a more just future. © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 writerly habits attention precision imagination questioning queer The Cultivation of Writerly Habits Is a National Emergency Stacey Waite As a young, queer undergraduate student, I used to think writing...

...Bunkong Tuon In this article, the author discusses his experiences teaching a class on the Vietnam War, a controversial subject that divided a nation along generational, class, and racial lines. He argues that learning takes place in the encounter of differences — where students consider...

... students to recognize that the approach to history they are familiar with—one that emphasizes national leaders and “major” events—is part of the same tendency to value the powerful that has caused African American history to be underpreserved. Preserving and publicizing local histories counters...

...Jennifer J. Smith This article argues that the short-story cycle should be central to teaching American literature, because the genre crystallizes major tensions of American literary history: marginality and inclusion, the individual and the community, and the formation of a national literature...

... that have controlled our access to “combat operations.” We encourage faculty to engage the complexities of war, to honor the complicated questions and dilemmas military members face, and to understand how those questions will likely filter into classrooms, social interactions, and broader national discourse...

...Micah Christopher Wright While other students were planning their moves to big universities across the nation, Micah Wright had a different post–high school plan. He wanted to join the Marine Corps. He left for boot camp in September 2002 and started a four-year life-changing experience...

.... Asking students to analyze these representations using a variety of rhetorical strategies highlights the way that various sources of (competing) knowledge about the national tragedy disrupt the notion that there is an accepted, uniform way of understanding this event. Furthermore, this approach...

...Audrey A. Fisch The New York Times and others regularly implore us to raise the quality of teacher education. This essay explores why it is so difficult to do so, particularly at the urban, public institutions that produce many of our nation's teachers. It describes one such attempt to raise...

...Brenda Deen Schildgen The introduction provides a broad overview of the occasion for this collection of essays that stem from a National Endowment for the Humanities institute in Florence, Italy, in 2014. In addition to giving a summary of the six essays that follow, it offers a rationale...

...Jacqueline Labbe Teaching Letitia Landon in the context of British Romanticism allows us to present her as a central figure within studies of form and content, particularly in how she negotiates national and international cultural and poetic contexts. This essay explores how her work enlarges our...

... assignment and allows students the space to resituate themselves in the classroom after facing natural and/or national disasters. This article argues that such narratives offer faculty means to be present and active for students in times of crisis and tragedy, teach more complex and nuanced critical reading...

...Dustin Friedman Abstract This article develops a theory of postcolonial queer pedagogy through reflections on teaching nineteenth-century literature at the National University of Singapore. Students draw on their experiences living in a culture torn between liberal and illiberal tendencies...

... presenta limitaciones a los que son permitidos de participar. Dr. Rachel Herzl-Betz y Hugo Virrueta share a conversation about Hugo's experience writing for one national conference funding application, y muestran como systemic inequality limits who may participate in academic research. Works Cited...

...Collie Fulford Abstract Adult students of diverse experiences, disciplines, and identities can become valued contributors to faculty‐directed research while also benefiting from the experience. However, national data show that older students participate in mentored research at one of the lowest...

...Ilana M. Blumberg Abstract Focusing on a course taught to Palestinian and Jewish Israelis, this essay suggests that the study of life writing can help students develop a better informed civic identity, particularly in relation to divisive national matters. By carefully constructing collective...

...Eric L. Ball; Alice Lai Duke University Press 2006 Abrahams, Roger D. 1993 . “Phantoms of Romantic Nationalism in Folkloristics.” Journal of American Folklore 106 : 3 -37. Anderson, Benedict. 1991 . Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism . New...