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Favorite Periods and Topics
Major Periods: Medieval, Early Modern, Restoration, Nineteenth Century
Topics: Religion and Literature, Women Writers, Book History, Adaptation, Literature and Popular Culture, Speculative Fiction, Arthurian Literature, Rhetoric and Composition Syllabi and Assignment Guides Sample Student Work |
Favorite Assignments
Commonplace Books: Students transcribe passages from the texts under "commonplace" headings in a notebook and comment on them.
Adaptations: Students adapt texts we read into performances, book covers, artwork, games, and social media. Logical Outlines: Students create evidence-based arguments, focusing on logical development of ideas. Poster Assignment: Students use research or theory to make an argument about a text or image. In some classes, students present their poster in person; in others, students produce a voice-over presentation on Prezi. Quality of Failure: To encourage students to take intellectual risks, part of their grade requires them to reflect on the quality of their failures over the course of the semester. |
Favorite Texts to Teach
Medieval: Beowulf, The Dream of the Rood, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of Margery Kempe, The Second Shepherd’s Play, Yvain, The Golden Legend
Early Modern: Utopia, Donne's sonnets, The Examinations of Anne Askew, Doctor Faustus, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Duchess of Malfi, The Temple, Areopagitica Restoration: Paradise Lost, The Blazing World, Pepys’ Diary, Pilgrim’s Progress, Oroonoko Speculative Fiction: Frankenstein, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Handmaid’s Tale, Lillith’s Brood, "Bloodchild," The Eyre Affair, "Mountains of Mourning," "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling," Old Man’s War |
Favorite Pedagogical ToolsAnnotation Studio
Voyant Zotero Colored Pencils Dry Erase Markers After a detailed discussion of Abdiel’s arguments with Satan in Book 5 of Paradise Lost, students used dry erase markers to diagram the events of Book 6.
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