Approaches to Teaching LGBT Literature

ISBN-13: 9781433141911 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 136 str.

John Pruitt; William P. Banks

Opis

This volume is designed to help teachers address what it means to teach LGBT literature.

Spis treści

William P. Banks/John Pruitt: Approaching LGBTQ Literatures: Frameworks for Pedagogical Inquiry - Timothy Barnett: Intersectional Pedagogies of Queer Literature: Teaching Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits - R. Joseph Rodríguez: "Keeping Us Visible": Introducing and Teaching Latino and Latina Literary Characters in LGBTQ-Themed College Courses - Serkan Gorkemli: Designing and Teaching "Introduction to LGBT Literature" in the U.S. and Turkey From a Transnational Perspective - Justyna Kostkowska: Love Without Boundaries: Appreciating Contemporary Women Writers' Challenges to the Binaries of Gender, Sexuality, and Textuality in Gender-Nonspecific Short Stories - Helena Gurfinkel: Biography Is the New Queer: Teaching Oscar Wilde and Henry James - Nicholas Alexander Hayes: Write Your Life: Student-Created Anthologies as Discourse in Queer Literature Classes - Jamie Steckelberg: Engaging Virtually With Parents of LGBTQ Children Through Literary Study: A Case Study of Shelly and Travis - Scott Lankford: Teaching LGBTQ Literature Online, 1997-2017: A Personal-Curricular Reflection - Contributors - Index.

O autorze

William P. Banks (PhD, Illinois State University) is Professor of English at East Carolina University, where he teaches courses in writing, research, pedagogy, LGBT literature, and young adult literature. His essays on queer rhetorics and LGBT and young adult literatures have appeared in College English, College Composition and Communication, and English Journal.

John Pruitt (PhD, Ohio University) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Rock County and editor of Wisconsin English Journal. His publications on LGBT pedagogy have appeared in journals such as College English and Teaching English in the Two-Year College.