Digital Pedagogy in the Traditional Literature and Gender Studies Classroom: Various Examples

This is a quick overview of a variety of different digital pedagogy exercises and assignments I have developed for my traditional literature seminars and feminist, gender and sexuality classes at Stanford this past year.  Please take a look–feedback welcome!s

Using Twitter for Crowdsourcing and Role-Play Exercises:

A Public Literary Twitter Role Play: Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray 

• The assignment prompt
• My pedagogical rationale and summary report on the  Twitter role play, with examples of significant interactions and learning outcomes

My Queer Valentine: A Valentine’s Day assignment on queer literature, film, the arts, and popular culture

• The assignment prompt

Close Reading and Communicative-Associative Reading:

An Image and Sound Interpretation of Wilde’s poem “The Harlot’s House”

• Link to the Exercise prompt and students’ contributions

A Collective Translation and Commentary for Charles Baudelaire’s “Hymn to Beauty”

• Link to the Exercise prompt and students’ contributions

Surrealist Visual Art and Literature, Collaborative Interpretation Exercise and “Exquisite Corpse Poem”

• Link to the Exercise prompt and students’ contributions, including a collective contribution by an undergraduate Modernism course from another university (California State University, Northridge)

Thinking about Queer Genders and Sexualities, Then and Now: Bringing Past and Present Together