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Teaching Graphic Novels in the English Classroom (Edited Volume), 2017

Alison Bechdel's text Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a rich, multimodal text we have incorporat... more Alison Bechdel's text Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a rich, multimodal text we have incorporated into many of our freshman-and sophomore-level Honors composition and general education first-year seminar classes. Depending on the course and audience, we have approached Fun Home from a number of angles: generically in relation to the Bildungsroman, as a memoir, as a Gothic novel, as a graphic novel, and, more specifically, as a model of performativity 1 embedded by and within the text as well as within the writing process. Regardless of our varied approaches to teaching the text, we recognize that Fun Home both performs and is about identity performance; it prompts students and instructors alike to recognize the performed identities of the readers, characters, text, and author.

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Creative & Devised Scripts by Season Ellison

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In spring 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic in full force, the National Collegiate Honors Council ... more In spring 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic in full force, the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) Place as Text (PAT) Committee reimagined its longstanding City as Text™ (CAT) Faculty Institute model as an experimental virtual training titled “Reading the Local in the New Now” (RLNN). With the cancellation of two scheduled CAT Faculty Institutes because of the pandemic, the committee quickly shifted gears to develop and offer a fully online version of the program. Shorter in length, with participants joining from their homes across the country, the Institute was designed with key CAT principles as its foundation (Braid and Long; Long; Machonis). In this chapter, the RLNN facilitators outline how we conceived of and created the Institute, and we describe the participants’ processes of engaging with it. In retrospect, we realized how closely both groups—facilitators and participants—practiced mapping, observing, listening, and reflecting as an integral part of our co-engagement,...

Teaching Graphic Novels in the English Classroom, 2017

In this chapter, Cordeiro and Ellison reflect on their use of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, a rich, ... more In this chapter, Cordeiro and Ellison reflect on their use of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, a rich, multimodal text they have incorporated in many of their freshman- and sophomore-level Honors composition and general population first-year seminar classes. As they discuss, they have used and approached Fun Home from a variety of angles: generically in relation to the Bildungsroman, as a Gothic novel, as a memoir, as a graphic novel, and as a model of performativity embedded by and within the text, highlighting the ways in which Fun Home both performs and is about identity performance. Cordeiro and Ellison foreground the concept of “pedagogical theatre” to illustrate how strong pedagogy should be fluid, flexible, shifting, nebulous, and always in rehearsal, as, like the characters in Bechdel’s novels, educators and scholars continually negotiate their relationships with students, with texts, and with writing.

International Review of Qualitative Research, 2010

Teaching Graphic Novels in the English Classroom (Edited Volume), 2017

Alison Bechdel's text Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a rich, multimodal text we have incorporat... more Alison Bechdel's text Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a rich, multimodal text we have incorporated into many of our freshman-and sophomore-level Honors composition and general education first-year seminar classes. Depending on the course and audience, we have approached Fun Home from a number of angles: generically in relation to the Bildungsroman, as a memoir, as a Gothic novel, as a graphic novel, and, more specifically, as a model of performativity 1 embedded by and within the text as well as within the writing process. Regardless of our varied approaches to teaching the text, we recognize that Fun Home both performs and is about identity performance; it prompts students and instructors alike to recognize the performed identities of the readers, characters, text, and author.

In spring 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic in full force, the National Collegiate Honors Council ... more In spring 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic in full force, the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) Place as Text (PAT) Committee reimagined its longstanding City as Text™ (CAT) Faculty Institute model as an experimental virtual training titled “Reading the Local in the New Now” (RLNN). With the cancellation of two scheduled CAT Faculty Institutes because of the pandemic, the committee quickly shifted gears to develop and offer a fully online version of the program. Shorter in length, with participants joining from their homes across the country, the Institute was designed with key CAT principles as its foundation (Braid and Long; Long; Machonis). In this chapter, the RLNN facilitators outline how we conceived of and created the Institute, and we describe the participants’ processes of engaging with it. In retrospect, we realized how closely both groups—facilitators and participants—practiced mapping, observing, listening, and reflecting as an integral part of our co-engagement,...

Teaching Graphic Novels in the English Classroom, 2017

In this chapter, Cordeiro and Ellison reflect on their use of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, a rich, ... more In this chapter, Cordeiro and Ellison reflect on their use of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, a rich, multimodal text they have incorporated in many of their freshman- and sophomore-level Honors composition and general population first-year seminar classes. As they discuss, they have used and approached Fun Home from a variety of angles: generically in relation to the Bildungsroman, as a Gothic novel, as a memoir, as a graphic novel, and as a model of performativity embedded by and within the text, highlighting the ways in which Fun Home both performs and is about identity performance. Cordeiro and Ellison foreground the concept of “pedagogical theatre” to illustrate how strong pedagogy should be fluid, flexible, shifting, nebulous, and always in rehearsal, as, like the characters in Bechdel’s novels, educators and scholars continually negotiate their relationships with students, with texts, and with writing.

International Review of Qualitative Research, 2010