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Teacher-scholars of "the long eighteenth century" consider teaching in this historical moment. Essays link eighteenth-century content with pedagogical approaches that engage contemporary students as developing scholars. Authors reflect on what it is that we do when we teach—how our pedagogies can be more meaningful, more impactful, and more relevant.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
List of contents
Introduction: Situating Teaching in/about/around the Eighteenth Century
Kate Parker and Miriam Wallace
1 Creating Teaching Editions, Teaching through Editing
Tiffany Potter
2 Performing against History: Teaching Behn’s
The Widdow Ranter
Ziona Kocher
3 Let’s Talk about (Early Modern) Sex . . . Online
Kate Parker
4 The Chocolate Project: Recontextualizing
Eighteenth-Century Studies in a Time of Downsizing
Teri Doerksen
5 Enlightened Exchanges: An Interdisciplinary
Approach to Teaching the Scottish Enlightenment
Christine D. Myers
6 Design, Pedagogy, and Pandemic Teaching Tools
in an Interdisciplinary History of Science Course
Diana Epelbaum
7 It Was Sickness and Poverty Together: Teaching
Inequality and Health Humanities in Austen’s Emma
Matthew L. Reznicek
8 Teaching Hurts
Travis Chi Wing Lau
9 Anticolonial Approaches to Teaching Colonial Art Histories
Emily C. Casey
Coda: Teaching (in) the Eighteenth(-)Century Now
Eugenia Zuroski
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
About the author
KATE PARKER, professor and chair of English, teaches pre-1800 English and European cultural studies and feminism and sexuality studies at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, a regional comprehensive university in the University of Wisconsin System.
MIRIAM L. WALLACE, formerly professor of English and gender studies at New College of Florida, is dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Illinois-Springfield.
Summary
In this timely collection, teacher-scholars of ‘the long eighteenth century’, a Euro-centric timeframe from about 1680 to 1832, consider what teaching means in this historical moment: one of attacks on education, a global contagion, and a reckoning with centuries of trauma experienced by Black, indigenous, and immigrant peoples.
