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 ›
Tag: Student-Driven Pedagogy
Moving on from teaching the general theme of women’s oppression in my composition course, as I described in my last post, we’ve turned to a much more … 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 ›
This semester, I approached my Composition students with a new assignment that they themselves had a hand in creating and making possible. As part of … 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 ›
The PDFs have been uploaded to Blackboard, the syllabi have been printed, stapled, and handed out, and names have been learned (well, mostly) as the … Read More ›
“…For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences, Which, from the stilly twilight of the place, And from the gray old trunks that … Read More ›
“How womankind, who are confined to the house still more than men, stand it I do not know; but I have ground to suspect that … Read More ›