The Vampire Goes to College

Essays on Teaching with the Undead
Herausgeber: Nevárez, Lisa A.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of original essays presents pedagogical tools, methods, and approaches for incorporating the figure of the vampire into the learning environment of the college classroom, in the hopes of ushering the Undead out of the coffin and into the classroom. The essays foster interdisciplinary collaboration and dialogue, and serve as a collective resource for those currently teaching the vampire as well as newcomers to vampire studies. Opening with a foreword by Sam George, the collection is organized around such topics as historicizing the vampire, teaching the diverse vampire, and engaging the student learner. Interwoven throughout the volume are strategies for incorporating writing instruction and generating conversations about texts ("texts" defined broadly so as to include film and other media). The vampire allows instructors to explore timeless themes such as life and death, love and passion, immortality, and monstrosity and Otherness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 489g
• ISBN-13: 9780786475544
• ISBN-10: 0786475544
• Artikelnr.: 42023560

Autorenporträt

Lisa A. Nevárez is an associate professor of English at Siena College in Loudonville, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Sam George
Introduction
Lisa A. Nevárez
Part I: Teaching the Historical Vampire
"Legitimizing" Vampire Fiction as an Area of Literary Study by Sue Weaver
Schopf
"But why do they have fangs?" The Cultural History of the Vampire as a
Teaching Strategy in the Literature Classroom by Heide Crawford
Taking Dracula's Pulse: Historicizing the Vampire by Lisa Lampert-Weissig
Part II: Teaching the Diverse Vampire
Outside/In: Using Vampires to Explore Diversity and Alienation in a College
Classroom by U. Melissa Anyiwo
"Can you blush?" Racing the Vampiric Body by Crystal Boson
Unknowable and Immeasurable: Queer Studies, Assessment and the Ever
Resistant Vampire by Seri I. Luangphinith
The Vampire Cult of Eternal Youth by Jean R. Hillabold
Part III: Writing the Vampire
Stories That Sparkle in Sunlight: Using Twilight to Teach Writing by Amy
Hodges
Vampire Literature: The Missing Component in Writing for the Sciences by
Neena Cinquino
Fangs in the Cornfields: Teaching Vampire Literature to Nontraditional
Students in the Composition Classroom by Vicky Gilpin
Part IV: Teaching the Textual Vampire
Text Pairing, Setting, and Vampire Literature: Teaching Bram Stoker's
Dracula and Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot by Alissa Burger
Timely ... or Timeless? Teaching the Twilight Saga by Heather Duerre Humann
A Tale of Three Draculas: Teaching Evolution and Genre Conventions by
Murray Leeder
Cherokee, Creole and Mormon, Oh My! A Look at Vampire and Religious
Representations for the Literature Classroom by Alisha M. Chambers
National Literature to RPGs: Vampires in the Polish Classroom by Michä
Wolski
Part V: Engaging the Student
Team Edward! Team Eric! Team Critical Thinking! Teaching the New American
Vampire to First Year Undergraduates by Candace R. Benefiel and Catherine
Coker
Luring Online Students with the Power of the Vampire by Anne Daugherty and
Jerri L. Miller
Blood, Lust and Transformation: Vampires in the Community College Classroom
by Leslie Ormandy
In the Cultural Shadows: Insights from a Media and Cultural Studies Course
by Rita Turner
Blogging the Undead: Information Literacy and Vampire Literature in an
Honors Seminar by Lisa A. Nevárez
About the Contributors
Index