The sad thing about teaching a composition course in which sexual violence is the major topic, is that it is always still relevant. An updated report from … Read More ›
Category: Gender & Women’s Studies
About to begin teaching my favorite second-level composition course for the sixth time, I can safely say that I know every required secondary reading has … Read More ›
Twenty-five percent of thru-hikers on the Appalachian Trail are women, and, let me tell you, these are hardcore women who take after the Mary Rowlandsons … Read More ›
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJn0ZPd6mYo&w=560&h=315] It’s the end of the semester, and we’ve finally arrived at our poetry unit. After wrapping up Chopin’s The Awakening, we spent two days … Read More ›
I’ve been teaching Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1899) in the Intro to Writing About Literature course for two years, and I’ve found it fits a shorter paper … Read More ›
Teaching Consent in the College Classroom (Part 2) [Read Part 1] Backwards Pedagogy and a Gender Studies theme for the semester turned out some really … Read More ›
When I began teaching Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew in 2014, I didn’t expect we’d end up talking about the NFL with my English composition students. Ray Rice, … Read More ›
