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Digital Humanities and Hybrid Education: Higher Education in, with and for the Public
This chapter proposes a new model for higher education where digital humanities are framed as a form of hybrid education through which hybridized...
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Contemporary American Fiction in the European Classroom Teaching and Texts
This book offers insight into the ways students enrolled in European classrooms in higher education come to understand American experience through...
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Irony, Popular Art, and Progressive Education in Little Mexican
This chapter explores Little Mexican and Other Stories (1924), Huxley’s third book of short fiction. It analyzes the following stories: “Little...
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Teaching and Studying Shakespeare in Higher Education in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
This chapter considers how teaching and studying Shakespeare evolved in higher education institutions in early twentieth century Japan. The first...
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Shadow Economies: The Financial Crisis and European TV Crime Series
This chapter examines the ways that European television crime series have reacted to and reflected upon the financial crisis of 2008 and its...
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Education, Exploitation and Empowerment of Dalits in Waiting for a Visa
India is a land of diversity, and it is this characteristics of India that has given it a cultural and spiritual edge in a world that marks the...
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Dialecticizing realism: aesthetics, forms, and the European bildungsroman
The scholarly literature on realism has largely discussed the factors that have led to realism’s development and, concurrently, have played a role in...
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Experiential Education as Public Humanities Practice
This essay provides a theoretical framework for experiential learning as public humanities practice. The chapter argues that reframing experiential...
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The West and the Resistance: Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Teaching Shakespeare for and against Westernisation in Japanese Higher Education
This chapter explores the question ‘Is Shakespeare perceived as one of the powerful global icons through which local education is westernised?’ in...
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Reading Without Writing and the Myth of Universal Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society
This Chapter explores the different kinds of literacy that were current in Eastern European Jewish society in the nineteenth century, and shatters...
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“The Refusal of Compassion”: Teaching The Merchant of Venice in a General Education Course
In this chapter, I explore the high-impact practices that work best with non-majors who enroll in my Shakespeare courses for a general education...
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Transforming Space: Nature, Education, and Home in Charlotte Forten and William Wells Brown
This chapter looks at Charlotte Forten’s journals and William W. Brown’s My Southern Home (1880) as indicating a post-Emancipation reconfiguration of...
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Serving the Church, Feeding the Academia: The Giunta and Their Market-Oriented Approach to European Institutions
Either secular or religious institutions during the Renaissance were both compulsive producers and avid consumers of books. Numerous printers and...
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The Significance of the Literature of Marginalized Nations in Sino-foreign Literary Relations—With a Focus on Eastern European Literature
Chinese civilization originated from a focal point in the central plains (Zhongyuan) around the Yellow River valley, from which it expanded to the...
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Introduction: American Fiction Abroad
This chapter outlines the purpose and scope of Contemporary American Fiction in the European Classroom: Teaching and Texts, a collection of essays...
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The French-American City: The Two Worlds of Chopin Fiction
New Orleans is well known as the “Queen of the Mississippi,” but it is also known as the most European city of America. Much of that is due to its...
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Early Modern French Women Writers
The different religiocultural events that marked the years 1526–1680 clearly affected the course of female education in France. However, their impact...
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Ernest F. Fenollosa Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art: An Outline History of East Asiatic Design (1921)
Ernest Francisco Fenollosa was born in Salem, Massachusetts, U.S.A in 1853. He graduated from Harvard in 1874 with a graduate degree in philosophy,...
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Approaches to Interculturality and Decolonization in German Studies in Southern Africa
The history of German as a subject in Southern Africa goes back to later phases of colonisation by European settlers and has been marked by many...