...; and The Acme Novelty Library: Final Report to Shareholders and Saturday Afternoon Rainy Day Fun Book. Martha Kuhlman, Laurie N. Taylor, and J. Caitlin Finlayson all examine questions that relate to graphic adaptations of traditional literary texts. Darren Harris-­Fain’s essay “Revisionist Superhero...

... 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 disability composition rhetoric superpowers first-year seminar superheroes comics writing instruction film Works Cited Bérubé Michael . 2005 . “Disability and Narrative.” PMLA 120 . 2 : 568 – 76 . Harris-Moore Deborah...

.../There-Is-No-Case-for-the/242724?cid=wcontentgrid_hp_6 . Yu Charles . 2006 . “ Realism .” In Third Class Superhero , 99 – 110 . Orlando, FL : Harcourt . Give Books a Chance, Even the Really Weird and Bizarre Ones Toward a Pedagogy of the Strange Kenneth Lota I offer a manifesto for weirdness...

... of superheroes and villains and empathize with both characters. In Dante’s descent into Hell, students witness how Dante, through his participation in the various sins of each circle, becomes the worst of sin- Wilson    Teaching Justice and Vision in the Divine Comedy  487 ners...

... a connection she says eventually led to a more successful course. Lindsey Row- Heyveld (2015) uses a superpower theme in her com- position classroom, invoking superheroes to discuss the socially constructed nature of disability, which parallels discussion of writing throughout the semester. According to Row...

... in an essay or if time were short, as a brief presentation. One student compared her writing process to her difficulties putting a toddler to bed. An inmate wrote about a superhero's battle against a procrastination villain. For spontaneous presentations, students shared a picture from a magazine or drew...

... on superheroes. Can we claim to have outgrown melodrama as a culture? Why not compare Hemans s William Wallace with Mel Gibson s William Wallace?6 Jeanne Moskal, University of North Carolina: Teaching Women Writers I should note that the question you asked me was about teaching women poets, and I have...