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Re-Embodying Our Discipline, Chelsea Dryer
Re-Embodying Our Discipline, Chelsea Dryer
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This Master's Thesis uses personal narrative and scholarly works to examine the benefits of embodiment in literary studies. Special attention is given to how lived experience can provide legitimate sources of academic evidence when examining texts and that texts can be used to integrate, examine, and reframe lived experiences.
Literary Pedagogies At Umsl: Combining Case Study With Personal Narrative, Elizabeth Miller
Literary Pedagogies At Umsl: Combining Case Study With Personal Narrative, Elizabeth Miller
Theses
Through traditional scholarship and an analysis of survey data collected from undergraduate literature students at the university, I investigate the ways in which pedagogies of composition and disability studies can be incorporated into the teaching of literature. Historically, literary scholarship has not focused on issues of pedagogy to the degree that other divisions within English Studies have done, and it is therefore necessary to determine what gaps exist, if any, and how they might be bridged. For example, composition pedagogies often emphasize active, student-based teaching paradigms that are rooted in students’ personal experiences and the kind of writing that interests …