Teaching Literature in the Online Classroom
- Editors: John Miller, Julie Wilhelm
- Pages: 312
- Published: 2022
- ISBN: 9781603294188 (Paperback)
- ISBN: 9781603294140 (Hardcover)
“An excellent collection of essays offering a wealth of thoughtful reflections and practical advice.”
—Glenda Hudson, California State University, Bakersfield
This volume considers the challenges and opportunities of online literature classes and suggests instructional strategies that ensure students are engaged in the virtual classroom. The ideas shared here are grounded in research, practice, critical self-reflection, and collaboration. Reflecting a diverse collection of practical tips and experiences from colleagues teaching at a variety of institutions, the essays offer readers the chance to inhabit others’ classrooms. Contributors discuss building an interactive and inclusive classroom and using hypertext, video lectures, and other asynchronous and synchronous tools in classes whose subjects include, among others, Shakespeare, the Chinese novel, early American literature, speculative fiction, and contemporary American poetry.
Introduction (1)
Part I: Close Reading at a Distance
Close-Reading Poetry by Creating Hypertexts (17)
Echoes of Sense and Structure: Sounding Poetry Online (31)
Collaborative Close Reading and Global Conversation in the Co-Constitutive Online Classroom (48)
Connecting Rhetorical Studies and Literary Studies in the Online Literature Classroom (65)
Part II: Asynchronous Interaction
Interactivity and Inclusivity in Online Discussions (81)
Transcendentalism Online: Asynchronous Discussion in the American Literature Survey (95)
Advantages of Distance: Critical and Ethical Reflection in the Online Classroom (106)
Caucusing in the Online Literature Classroom (124)
Part III: Tools of the Trade
Media, Performance, and Student Engagement: Creating Video Lectures for Online Literature Courses (143)
Teaching Literature Online with Google Docs (155)
A Glossary of Modernity: Collaborativism in an Advanced World Literature Course (161)
“My Books Will Be Read by Millions of People!”: The LaGuardia Community College Octavia E. Butler Project on Wikipedia (172)
Blending Asynchronous and Synchronous Tools in Online Literature Classes (181)
Part IV: Course Models
Strategies for Teaching Shakespeare Online (209)
A Week in the Life of an Online Shakespeare Class (225)
Close Reading, “Evocative Objects,” and the Online Early American Literature Survey (237)
Not Lost in Translation: Teaching the Classic Chinese Novel Online (253)
Dystopian Literature at a Distance (268)
Beyond the Suspicions of Online Learning: A Case for Return Design (280)
Notes on Contributors (301)
