Teaching Literature in the Online Classroom

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.

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Teaching Literature in the Online Classroom

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.

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781603294195
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Publication date: 10/26/2022
Series: Options for Teaching , #59
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 312
File size: 5 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction John Miller Julie Wilhelm 1

Part I Close Reading at a Distance

Close-Reading Poetry by Creating Hypertexts Elizabeth Steere 17

Echoes of Sense and Structure: Sounding Poetry Online Shari Evans Jeannette E. Riley 31

Collaborative Close Reading and Global Conversation in the Co-Constitutive Online Classroom Al Filreis Anna Strong Safford Davy Knittle 48

Connecting Rhetorical Studies and Literary Studies in the Online Literature Classroom Christine Photinos 65

Part II Asynchronous Interaction

Interactivity and Inclusivity in Online Discussions Shelly Galliah 81

Transcendentalism Online: Asynchronous Discussion in the American Literature Survey Melissa J. Strong 95

Advantages of Distance: Critical and Ethical Reflection in the Online Classroom Julie Wilhelm 106

Caucusing in the Online Literature Classroom Marissa Greenberg Elizabeth Williamson 124

Part III Tools of the Trade

Media, Performance, and Student Engagement: Creating Video Lectures for Online Literature Courses Erin Jensen Sam Lackey 143

Teaching Literature Online with Google Docs John Misak 155

A Glossary of Modernity: Collaborativism in an Advanced World Literature Course Amy C. Smith 161

"My Books Will Be Read by Millions of People!": The LaGuardia Community College Octavia E. Butler Project on Wikipedia Ximena Gallardo C. Ann Matsuuchi 172

Blending Asynchronous and Synchronous Tools in Online Literature Classes Carrie Sickmann Megan L. Musgrave Michelle Maloney-Mangold Lynn Jettpace 181

Part IV Course Models

Strategies for Teaching Shakespeare Online Tara Bradway 209

A Week in the Life of an Online Shakespeare Class John Miller 225

Close Reading, "Evocative Objects," and the Online Early American Literature Survey Farrah Cato Lisa M. Logan 237

Not Lost in Translation: Teaching the Classic Chinese Novel Online Frederik H. Green 253

Dystopian Literature at a Distance Daniel P. Compora 268

Beyond the Suspicions of Online Learning: A Case for Return Design Brian Danielson Danette DiMarco 280

Notes on Contributors 301

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