CFP: Traveling with Gulliver, around Campus

Pedagogy-oriented submissions that give insight into the ways Gulliver’s Travels is taught in higher education are invited for the Long 18th Teaching Tools page of the Studies in the Novel website.

Possible contributions might explore

  • methods of teaching we employ, with a particular emphasis on using Gulliver’s Travels as a prompt to pedagogic experimentation.
  • selections or extracts from the novel that we teach and the purposes they serve from discipline to discipline.
  • disciplinary possibilities and limitations of the text.
  • using Gulliver’s Travels to teach formal disciplinary requirements such as the use of evidence, the nature of genre, the skills of close reading, writing style modeling, etc.
  • varied student responses to the Travels across stages of learning (from first-year undergraduate courses to graduate seminars)
  • reaction of students across different educational contexts and institutional settings such as the community college, the four-year “commuter campus,” the liberal arts college, etc.
  • engagement of the student’s social identity in reading and responding to the book.
  • interactions that Gulliver’s Travels generates in the classroom: the moral, political, social, and aesthetic concerns it raises.

For further information follow this link to download the full call for papers.