Description:

Join the Global Eighteenth-Century Colloquium for a graduate student and early career scholar workshop facilitated by Dr. Rebekah Mitsein (Boston College) about strategies for teaching eighteenth-century literature and material culture. 

As we face down racial hostilities, environmental catastrophes, and anti-LGBTQIA+ legislation in the twenty-first century, literary studies needs to be more flexible than ever before. Yet, our methods for teaching the literature of the past can feel bound by the white, Eurocentric, anthropocentric canon that dominates syllabi as well as by the historicist approaches that have become standard pedagogy. This discussion-based workshop will explore methods that scholars are using to make the world outside the written canon central to the field and strategies for adapting them for the classroom.