...Catherine Mainland In this article, the author explains the habits that she brought to teaching English from the field of second-language acquisition. She began teaching in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where graduate teaching...

...Carla Arnell This essay examines the challenges and opportunities that characterize teaching literature in contemporary high schools and colleges—an educational milieu that has become increasingly dominated by standardized testing, skills assessment, and careerism. © 2017 by Duke University Press...

...Paul T. Corrigan Not long ago, prominent figures in English studies found scholarship on teaching literature underwhelming—especially compared to scholarship on teaching writing. This essay's analysis of citations in recent articles documents that scholarship on teaching literature has since...

...Rajini Srikanth Overwhelmed by the World:   Teaching Literature and the Difference   of Nations Rajini Srikanth The premise of this essay is twofold: that we live in a world of shared desti- nies and that literature has some part to play in enabling connections across nations...

...John Schilb Preparing Graduate Students to Teach Literature: Composition Studies as a Possible Foundation John Schilb In a still-crowded job market, many graduate students in literary studies think that they will never land a tenure-track position unless they churn out con- ference papers...

... the relationship between argument and knowl- edge production, a relationship that pervades academic writing across the dis- ciplines but is rarely acknowledged. 427 Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture Volume 3, Number 3, © 2003 Duke University Press F r o m t h...

... in linguistic research, literary analysis, and the making of literary history. The Word Project Teaching Early Literature through Language Change in the Survey of British Literature I Elizabeth Schirmer and Avilah Getzler It is impossible to teach a survey course in early British literature without confronting...

...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...

...Emily Isaacs Fueled by disciplinary disagreements and resource fights, comp/lit conflicts continue. However, productive collaboration is possible and an opportunity remains in developing general education writing courses. A general education course in teaching writing through literature is argued...

... of an Online Social Annotation Tool in a College English Course .” Multiple Perspectives on Problem Solving & Learning in the Digital Age , January : 313 – 23 . Morris Janine . 2015 . “ A Genre-Based Approach to Digital Reading .” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language...

....” College English 14 : 210 -16. Boehrer, Bruce. 2002 . “`Lycidas': The Pastoral Elegy As Same-Sex Epithalamium.” PMLA 117 : 222 -36. Booth, Wayne C. 1998 . “The Ethics of Teaching Literature.” College English 61 : 41 -55. Corbett, Edward P. J. 1990 . Classical Rhetoric for the Modern...

... 1 : 69 -90. Cheap Teaching at High Prices: Jerome Klinkowitz s Literature Pedagogy You ve Got to Be Carefully Taught: Learning and Relearning Literature. By Jerome Klinkowitz. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001. Gregory Eiselein As a teacher who longs for good work...

... of a series in Pedagogy s Review section. In it we ask leading scholars to discuss the texts that have most influenced their teaching. Our thanks to Elaine Showalter for suggesting this ongoing project. Teaching American Literature Linda Wagner-Martin Teaching is not a process, it is a developing emotional...

... and Holt-Reynolds 1991; Bullough and Stokes 1994; Tillema 1998). To engage my students in such critical examination, I have developed two assignments for a course titled The Teaching of Literature in the Sec- ondary Schools. I call these assignments the pedagogical discussion assign- ment...

... . London : Hambledon and London . Beyond Pacifism Teaching World War I Literature from Left to Right Joyce Wexler Reading the current canon of texts about World War I, one would think it really had been the war to end war. Wilfred Owen, perhaps the best-­known poet of the war, denounced...

... Teaching Medieval Literature off the Grid Nathanial B. Smith and Gina Brandolino In modern usage, living “off the grid” means living totally independently, without the modern conveniences of publicly supplied gas, electricity, and water; it also refers to people who strive to remain unrecorded...

... of the complicated gender dynamics of aristocratic manuscript culture. Fully perceiving the proliferating selfhood that saturates Shakespeare’s Son- net 135 — “Let no unkind, no fair beseechers kill; / Think all but one, and Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition...

...Sheree Meyer Broadly Representative ? The MLA s Approaches to Teaching World Literature Series Sheree Meyer The Modern Language Association s (MLA s) Approaches to Teaching World Literature series began in 1980 with the publication of Approaches to Teach- ing Chaucer s Canterbury Tales...

... the unexpected crowds gathered Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture Volume 8, Number 1  © 2007 by Duke University Press 135 daily to view evidence...

... in Color: Multiple Intelligences in the Literature Classroom Helen Sword On or about September 1997, I started teaching in color. With the painful clarity of a myopic donning a new pair of glasses, I realized that for years I had been confining my literature students to a black-and-white...