Search Results for popular culture

... students with limited background information about neo‐ and pseudo‐medieval concepts based on popular medieval story clusters (e.g., Arthurian lore, Robin Hood tales, Norse sagas), as evidenced in literature of the Middle Ages which has been (re)adapted in popular culture (visual media, literary...

...Martha C. Pennington Changing constructions of literacy in online contexts are situating reading and writing within everyday and popular culture activities while also facilitating highly specialized literate and creative activity. I define these two types of literacy as “little-l” literacy and “Big...

...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...

...Erica Gene Delsandro This article examines how the popular television series Downton Abbey , functioning in tandem with twentieth-century novels, provides students with a cultural forum that opens up a cultural, literary, and historical period that would otherwise remain distant. By encouraging...

... Scholes, Comley, and Ulmer successfully show how to teach college students difficult texts and critical thinking through imitating language and forms drawn from wide-ranging models. In so doing, students realize how ideas circulate between popular and high culture, and how literary texts inform one...

... was pivotal in the first sense of the word owing to Benjamin Disraeli's defeat of William Gladstone and the subsequent decline of laissez-faire and rise of imperialism. I discuss how I use that event as a pivot by referring back to the culture of voluntarism that had promoted Gladstone's popularity...

... 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...

... specializing in media studies, television scholarship, popular culture, feminist theory, and pedagogy. Her most recent and forthcoming publications include her books Women and Language: Gendered Communication across Media (2011), Time in Television Narrative: Exploring Temporality in Twenty-­First...

... absence of color in creative writing faculty, curriculum, pedagogy, and praxis. Similar absences also pervade academia overall and American mainstream popular culture. The publishing world’s interns, editors, reviewers, and writers often are university educated, and many of them go...

... include first-­ year composition, grammar, the analysis of popular culture, and gender studies/ LGBT studies. She is the author of essays on James Bond and on teen films of the 1980s, of several introductions to gothic novels, and of a monograph entitled The Female Investigator in Literature, Film...

... creative nonfiction and writing workshop classes that I have taught since 1997, particularly for assignments in hypertext autobiogra- phy and popular culture genres. The final section of this essay describes stu- dent work that such assignments have generated. The significant increase in 338 Pedagogy...

... is German-Jewish Popular Culture: Kafka’s Kitsch (2008). His research interests include Judaic Studies, psychoanalysis, and critical pedagogy. Shady Cosgrove is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Wol- longong, Australia, with teaching interests in prose fiction and editing. Her...

... , Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies , and the Journal of Popular Culture , among others. With Erin Spampinato and Michael Dango, she is preparing an edited collection for SUNY Press entitled New Rape Studies: Humanistic Interventions , slated for publication in 2024. She also serves as Reviews editor...

.... Saltzman Esther Bendit , 46 – 59 . Jefferson, NC : McFarland . Ito Kinko . 2005 . “ A History of Manga in the Context of Japanese Culture and Society .” Journal of Popular Culture 38 , no. 3 : 456 – 75 . Jensen Michael P. 2007 . “ The Comic Book Shakespeare, Part II...

..., self-reflexive thinking; conser- vatism as conscientization; a pedagogy of despair as one of possibility (16). While his interest in representation of the student runs throughout the book, it becomes a particular focus in his chapters about the Open University s course on popular culture, U203...

... studies, with a focus on multiculturalism. His previous essays have appeared in MELUS: Multiethnic Literature of the United States, Twentieth Century Literature, the Journal of Popular Culture, and others. He was the recipient of the 2017 Whatley Award for his article in Studies in Popular Culture. Amy...

... State University, where she teaches classes on feminist cultural studies, the gen- dered politics of nationalism and citizenship, and transnational feminism. Her research focuses on the transnational circulation of U.S. literary and popular cultures. Charlie Sweet ([email protected]...

... of Color (2001). Jeraldine Kraver is director of English education at the University of Northern Colorado. She teaches the theory and practice of teaching both writing and literature and also supervises student teachers. Her research focuses on media literacy, popular culture and critical pedagogy...

..., and a member of the Professional Development Working Group for the graduate school. A specialist in American literature and culture, he teaches courses on American literary history, popular literature, children’s literature, place and environment, and sport and society. Kerri Hauman is assistant...

... and interdisciplinary, presenting readers with art, fiction, poetry, political essays, news articles, opinion pieces, and items of popular culture. I ask students to compare this publication to those in their own reading practices (especially of more “popular” genres like social media and magazines...