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... and Education 54 . 3 : 319 – 38 . Pedagogic Trifecta Professor, Caregiver, and Service Provider —  Using Multiple Roles to Teach Disability Studies Mariette J. Bates Over the last twenty years of teaching disability studies courses to frontline workers, each semester I repeatedly...

..., Nancy DeJoy (2003) of Millikin University described her commitment to taking undergradu- ate students to professional conferences with her and how this experience has affected her perception of the field of English studies. Professors Laurie Grob- man and Candace Spigelman are editing a new journal...

... . Commentary Don’t Call Me Professor! John Boe As someone who has been teaching full time off the tenure track at the Uni- versity of California, Davis, since 1981, I am grateful for David Bartholomae’s “Teaching on and off the Tenure Track: Highlights from the ADE Survey of Staffing Patterns...

..., 25 -43. Albany: State University of New York Press. Williams, Jeffrey, ed. 2002 . The Institution of Literature . Albany: State University of New York Press. At the Museum of Natural Theory: The Experiential Syllabus (or, What Happens When Students Act Like Professors) Karen M...

... vehicle to start students addresstheir problems involving argument. This paper recounts a music professor's experience designing and teaching his first writing course, Music into Words. Research on the conceptualization of music argues that our ability to communicate musical understanding relies heavily...

... to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture Volume 5, Number 2, © 2005 Duke University Press 175 Myths and Realities for Today s College Professors; or, Et in Arcadia Ego Michael A. Winkelman A Clerk ther was of Oxenford also, That unto logyk hadde longe ygo. As leene was his hors as is a rake...

...Bev Hogue Why would an English professor enroll in an upper-level biology class? This article describes an experiment in interdisciplinarity: an English professor takes a class titled Scientific Imaging in order to enhance her teaching of nature writing. The author outlines thirteen specific...

...Janet Alsup; Tammy Conard-Salvo; Scott J. Peters In this article, an English education professor, a university writing center administrator, and a recent graduate of an undergraduate English education program discuss the role peer tutoring might play in enhancing the education of preservice...

...Sandy Feinstein; Bryan Shawn Wang Abstract Co-teaching an interdomain literature and biology course, before, during, and after the COVID-19 protocols led the authors to consider how interdisciplinarity might serve as a means to “de-extinction” for English. The authors, an English professor...

... purposes, as well as John Guillory’s notion that representation, in the political sense, is misapplied when it comes to canon formation, this article suggests that professors rethink how they put together their own syllabi. It asks that they consider shifting their primary criteria for inclusion from...

...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...

... by professors whose teaching styles did not match his Marine Corps training, was more difficult than he anticipated, until he realized that his identity as a Marine could be a formidable force in achieving his degree. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 veteran military armed forces Marine Corps...

... but can easily be extended to many more writers and works. The resistance of students to long poems by any poet, much less by women, reveals that professors still have much work to do in establishing lesser-known women writers as coequal with their better-known male contemporaries. This resistance...

...Mark C. Long This collaboratively written essay offers an account of a group of graduate students preparing to teach a literature course at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The students, guided by their professor, Dale Bauer, immerse themselves in current debates about teaching...

...Dara Rossman Regaignon Entering college students often struggle with their professors' expectations for “analysis” since those expectations are often ingrained in disciplinary assumptions that scholars rarely need to articulate. In this essay, I argue that we need to teach analysis explicitly...

...Kim Hensley Owens This article extends a conversation about teaching begun by Michael Bérubé. Prompted by Bérubé's assertion that his publishing experience translates to better responses to student writing, the piece argues that professors can teach beyond what Bérubé calls “the six...

...Brianne Jaquette; Shelli Homer; Gregory D. Specter This article addresses the absence of substantial and sustained online teaching communities of college literature professors and uses the website Pedagogy & American Literary Studies to illustrate the strategies and challenges involved...

... attack, professors in all disciplines should help prepare students to address problems in US democracy. © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 general education curriculum design disciplinarity interdisciplinarity democracy Breech Disciplinary Levees Help Fix Democracy Doug Hesse I m...

...Stephen Sutherland To build on the legacy of reader-response theory, English studies needs to destabilize the foundational binary separation of reading and writing by creating stronger intradisciplinary relations between composition and literary studies. English studies professors can do so...

...-level undergraduate literature pedagogy. The author argues that, rather than choosing realistic narratives that students are likely to understand and relate to on first pass, professors should deliberately seek out works students are likely to initially find confusing or strange and then endeavor...