Teaching (With) Literary Theory

Using Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968) as one point of departure, this workshop will interrogate the ways in which the institutionalization of critical theory practices has, in many cases, gone against the hopes of many scholars by becoming a teaching of theory instead of a theorized teaching. We will discuss a number of approaches and thorny issues as we workshop tangible ways to productively teach (with) literary theory in our future classrooms.

Professors Sara Nadal, Hispanic Studies, and Michele Richman, French Studies
Convener: Bryan Cameron, CTL Graduate Fellow, Hispanic Studies

All graduate students and faculty are welcome but this event grows out of
concerns in the department of Romance Languages and so may be most useful to students in related fields.

Counts toward the CTL teaching certificate.

The following texts have been pre-circulated to support discussion:

Susan S. Lanser "The T-Word:  Theory as Trail and Transformation of the Undergraduate Classroom"

Diana Fuss "Accounting for Theory in the Undergraduate Classroom"

Wednesday, Oct. 21st, 1-2: Williams 543