I’m thrilled to share this new piece is out in the world! A sound studies reading of Sarah Parton’s Ruth Hall (1862), reflections on what … Read More ›
Category: American Literature
As a sound studies scholar, I am always looking for ways to bring sound into my classroom. I play recordings of wild birds, amphibians, and … Read More ›
This post is a modified version of “Unfolding Fanny Fern’s Ruth Hall and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘The Birthmark’,” a paper I presented at the American Literature … Read More ›
Teaching Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth Century is instructive in its challenge. The text contains numerous references that take students to task with additional … Read More ›
“What is wanted is men, not of policy, but of probity–who recognize a higher law than the Constitution, or the decision of the majority. The … Read More ›
This semester as I prepared my syllabus for the American Literature: Origins to the Civil War course, I wanted to get my students more engaged … Read More ›
Pedagogy and American Literary Studies (PALS) invited me last month to write a guest post on teaching the American Literature Survey Course. While collaborating and … Read More ›
Henry David Thoreau writes in “Walking,” that every walk is a crusade, and declares sauntering an art. I set out this summer to hike about … Read More ›
Teaching PALS was kind enough to let me write a guest post on Student-Driven Pedagogy in the Early American Survey Course for their blog. Check … Read More ›
Teaching an American Literature survey course for the first time last semester, I wanted to take on Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick both for myself and for my students. My students … Read More ›
