In 1995, George Haggerty and Bonnie Zimmermans landmark volume Professions of Desire: Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literaturefollowed by William Spurlins Lesbian and Gay Studies and the Teaching of English (2000)began addressing the esoteric discussions complicating the intersections among gender, sexuality, and other identity constructs within the English classroom. Given the perpetuation of heteronormativity in the educational system, Haggerty encourages instructors to help LGBT students "learn about the politics of oppression in their own lives as well as in the cultural context that, after all, determines what they mean when they call themselves lesbian or gay."
Approaches to Teaching LGBT Literature is designed to help teachers address what it means to teach LGBT literature. How can pre-service teacher educators prepare their students to teach LGBT literature? How should teachers introduce different bodies of students to these texts? Those interested in starting LGBT-themed courses and/or thinking about how LGBT literatures might fit into the broader undergraduate curriculum will benefit from this scholarship addressing the history and evolution of LGBT literature courses in different contexts and providing a diverse set of example courses, projects, and activities that would help an array of faculty to implement such courses on their campuses.
This volume is designed to help teachers address what it means to
teach LGBT literature.
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1 Approaching LGBTQ Literatures: Frameworks for Pedagogical Inquiry |
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2 Inter sectional Pedagogies of Queer Literature: Teaching Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits |
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3 "Keeping Us Visible": Introducing and Teaching Latino and Latina Literary Characters in LGBTQ-Themed College Courses |
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4 Designing and Teaching "Introduction to LGBT Literature" in the U.S. and Turkey From a Transnational Perspective |
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5 Love Without Boundaries: Appreciating Contemporary Women Writers' Challenges to the Binaries of Gender, Sexuality, and Textuality in Gender-Nonspecific Short Stories |
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6 Biography Is the New Queer: Teaching Oscar Wilde and Henry James |
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7 Write Tour Life: Student-Created Anthologies as Discourse in Queer Literature Classes |
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8 Engaging Virtually With Parents of LGBTQ Children Through Literary Study: A Case Study of Shelly and Travis |
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9 Teaching LGBTQ Literature Online, 1997-2017: A Personal-Curricular Reflection |
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| Contributors |
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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.
