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Teaching Chaucer in China in the Republican Period (1912-1949)
This essay studies the teaching of the medieval English poet Geoffrey Chaucer in China during the Republican period (1912-1949), through evidence of...
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Intermediality, Teaching, and Literacy
Literacy and learning to read media forms have been somewhat underestimated, even if the wide-ranging debates about the conceptualization of the...
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Teaching Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century
In this Introduction, Sasser and Atwood introduce the purpose of this collection and provide an overview of its contributing chapters. This...
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Teaching Shakespeare Beyond the Major
This edited collection considers the task of teaching Shakespeare in general education college courses, a task which is often considered obligatory,...
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Intermediality, Teaching, and Literacy
Literacy and learning to read media forms have been somewhat underestimated, even if the wide-ranging debates about the conceptualization of the...
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Intermediality, Teaching, and Literacy
Literacy and learning to read media forms have been somewhat underestimated, even if the wide-ranging debates about the conceptualization of the...
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Teaching Shakespeare off the Tenure Track
What does it mean for Shakespeare when tenure-track positions are no longer assured, and universities rely on more contingent faculty to cover their...
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On Teaching the University
This brief chapter discusses Jeffrey Williams’s “Teach the University” (2008) and the importance of translating the materials from the body chapters...
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One-Act Shakespeare: Teaching Cultural Legacy Through Excerpts and Adaptations
Despite widespread resistance to teaching Shakespearean drama through excerpted passages, an alternative to the standard two-week study of a...
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A Diverse Approach to Teaching Creative Writing
This opening section explains the value of the book, referencing recent articles related to the diverse creative writing classroom. It describes the...
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Pop Sonnets: The Interplay Between Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Popular Music in English Language Teaching
Erik Didriksen’s Pop Sonnets (2015) are popular songs skilfully rewritten as sonnets. They creatively adapt Shakespeare’s Sonnets and transform their...
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Teaching Argument Through Relationships
One way of understanding how to intervene in dysfunctional public discourse is to attend to the ways that we teach argument. This article contends...
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A Discussion on the Teaching of Creative Writing in the Writing Classes of Colleges in China
Creative writing has been developed for over seventy years in Western developed countries. It has gradually become a mature academic subject with a...
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Basic Teaching of Creative Writing as a “Pool of Inspiration”: A Discussion Starting from the Undergraduate Teaching of Drama and Film Arts in the Creative Writing Programme
The study of the definition of “creative writing” and the nurturing of talents can be pursued on two levels: first, it can be studied as a newly...
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Teaching Philip Roth in Denmark: It’s Complicated
Danish students gain access to contemporary America by reading Philip Roth. They feel sympathy for Jewish outsiders, and the Holocaust subtext...
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Skulls, worms, and angels: Teaching ritual through the grave in an Aljamiado Ḥadīth
The Aljamiado devotional text, ‘El alhadis de la calavera que encontró ʿĪsa’ (Account of Jesus and the Skull) occupies four folios in one of two...
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Teaching Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah in Ireland: “If you don’t understand, ask questions”
Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah offers a valuable resource for teaching contemporary literature in Ireland. Students respond well to the novel’s...
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A Border-Crossing Teaching Body: Reflections on a Decolonial Pedagogy for Literary Studies in a South African Context
This chapter reflects on my position as a teacher of Literary Studies in a post-apartheid classroom. My position is described as a teaching body,...
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A Global Conversation on Native-Speakerism: Toward Promoting Diversity in English Language Teaching
It has been over three decades since Paikeday’s “The Native SpeakerNative speaker is Dead” was published, but alas the native speaker fallacyNative...