1st Edition
Teaching in Times of Crisis Applying Comparative Literature in the Classroom
Introduction
Memo I—The Deliverance or Domestication of Others: Memos from Comparative Literature Classes in Appalachia
Memo II—Syllabusing: Mapping Appalachian Texts onto a World Literature Curriculum
Memo III—Pedagogies of Cultural Translation: Debating Polygamy, War, and Patriotism in Comparative Literature Classes
Memo IV—Syllabusing: Mapping Appalachian Queer Texts onto a Comparative Literature Curriculum
Memo V—Monstrous Encounters in Outer Space: A Pedagogic Analysis of Star Trek’s Racial Politics from a Comparative Perspective
Memo VI—Comparative Feminism and Social Justice: Instrumentalizing the Poetics of Assia Djebar’s "The Woman in Pieces" in Experiential Learning Courses
Conclusion
Biography
Mich Yonah Nyawalo is an Associate Professor of Critical Ethnic, Black/Race Studies at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio. His areas of specialization are globalization studies, postcolonial criticism, African literatures (including audio and visual cultures from the continent), media studies, critical pedagogy, and service learning. The years he has spent living and studying in Kenya, Uganda, France, Sweden, and the United States have highly defined his academic projects, which appropriate a mixture of critical tools and scholarly texts derived from the fields of African, African diaspora, and African-American studies. Some of the classes he teaches include World Literature, Black Transnationalism, Comparative Feminist Literature, Comparative Queer Theory and Literature, Introduction to Media and Culture, Graphic Novels and Animation, as well as Video Games and Virtual Worlds.
