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Call for Papers: Teaching Tainted Lit: Popular American Fiction and Perils and Pleasures of the Classroom
| Call for Papers Date: | 2012-01-15 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-09-20 |
| Announcement ID: |
188203 |
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Essay contributions are sought for a volume entitled Teaching Tainted Lit: Popular American Fiction and the Perils and Pleasures of the Classroom, to be edited by Janet G. Casey. Taking as its premise the idea that popular fiction has secured a solid position in higher education classrooms, this collection seeks to explore its pedagogical implications. Possible topics may include: unusual or insightful uses of the popular in the context of college English; historical or contemporary struggles over the teaching of popular texts; the politics and intersections of popularity and canonicity as they pertain to the classroom; anxieties and pleasures (on the parts of students and/or teachers) located in reading the popular; differences in attitudes about studying historical and contemporary popular texts; relations between teaching the popular and the perceived crisis in the humanities; teaching the American popular outside the U.S.; issues of publication and dissemination that affect teaching (e.g., working with magazines; problems associated with out-of-print materials). Essays that focus on a particular text and its pedagogical ramifications are also welcome, especially if they put broader questions into play. Personal/anecdotal postures invited. Please send a 300-word abstract and cv to jcasey@skidmore.edu by 15 Jan. 2012. Invited essays will be due in late 2012.
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Janet G. Casey
Skidmore College
815 N. Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Email: jcasey@skidmore.edu
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