Queer Beats - Gender and Literature in the Efl Classroom

ISBN-13: 9783631761663 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 466 str.

Maria Eisenmann;Christian Ludwig

Opis

Gender diversity and the fact that gender is subject to perpetual renegotiations have become part of teachers' and students' lives. This volume tackles this issue by showing particularly innovative ways of teaching gender in the EFL classroom. Thus, the contributions include a broad variety of gender realities, such as trans* and cisgender, a cornucopia of texts and other media, a variety of literary genres, graphic novels, films and TV shows. The authors also illustrate cutting-edge approaches to teaching both literature and gender in the contemporary student-centered EFL classroom with different age groups.

Spis treści

Fostering gender competence through music videos - A literary approach to US toilet politics - Gender awareness and language awareness - Playing with identities and role stereotypes - Teaching homosexuality - Interrogating and (re-)defining gender roles - Exploring gender with science fiction - Queer questions about the construction of identity - Trans issues - Canadian trans* literature - Reading an aboriginal life story - Teaching family structures and gender roles - Teaching gender reflection - Creating queer text ensembles - Gay-themed narratives - Exploring LGBTQ life through American TV series - Deconstructing gender stereotypes - Judith Butler's critique of binary gender opposition

O autorze

Maria Eisenmann holds the Chair for Teaching English as a Foreign Language at the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg. She studied English, German and Pedagogy at the Universities of Würzburg and Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Her main research interests are in the areas of teaching literature, media literacy as well as inter- and transcultural learning. She has edited and co-edited numerous books and published widely in the field of teaching literature and literary literacy.

Christian Ludwig is currently a substitute professor for American Cultural and Literary Studies at the University of Education, Karlsruhe, where he is also the Head of the English Department and Director of the Language Learning Centre. His teaching and research interests include enhancing learner autonomy in the EFL classroom as well as Computer-Assisted Language Learning. His focus of research lies in the reconstruction of gender and other identities in contemporary young adult dystopias and South African literature.