Enfilade

From De Gruyter:

Kate Parker and Miriam Wallace, eds., Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now: Pedagogy as Ethical Engagement (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2024), 196 pages, ISBN: ‎ 978-1684485048 (hardcover) / ISBN: ‎978-1684485031 (paperback), $38.

In this timely collection, teacher-scholars of ‘the long eighteenth century’, a Eurocentric time frame from about 1680 to 1832, consider what teaching means in this historical moment: one of attacks on education, a global contagion, and a reckoning with centuries of trauma experienced by Black, Indigenous, and immigrant peoples. Taking up this challenge, each essay highlights the intellectual labor of the classroom, linking textual and cultural materials that fascinate us as researchers with pedagogical approaches that engage contemporary students. Some essays offer practical models for teaching through editing, sensory experience, dialogue, or collaborative projects. Others reframe familiar texts and topics through contemporary approaches, such as the health humanities, disability studies, and decolonial teaching. Throughout, authors reflect on what it is that we do when we teach—how our pedagogies can be more meaningful, more impactful, and more relevant.

Kate Parker, professor and chair of English, teaches pre-1800 English and European cultural studies and feminism and sexuality studies at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, a regional comprehensive university in the University of Wisconsin System.

Miriam L. Wallace, formerly professor of English and gender studies at New College of Florida, is dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Illinois-Springfield.

c o n t e n t s

Introduction: Situating Teaching in/about/around the Eighteenth Century — Kate Parker and Miriam L. Wallace
1  Creating Teaching Editions, Teaching through Editing — Tiffany Potter
2  Performing against History: Teaching Behn’s The Widdow Ranter — Ziona Kocher
3  Let’s Talk about (Early Modern) Sex . . . Online — Kate Parker
4  The Chocolate Project: Recontextualizing Eighteenth-Century Studies in a Time of Downsizing — Teri Doerksen
5  Enlightened Exchanges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching the Scottish Enlightenment — Christine D. Myers
6  Design, Pedagogy, and Pandemic Teaching Tools in an Interdisciplinary History of Science Course — Diana Epelbaum
7  It Was Sickness and Poverty Together: Teaching Inequality and Health Humanities in Austen’s Emma — Matthew L. Reznicek
8  Teaching Hurts — Travis Chi Wing Lau
9  Anticolonial Approaches to Teaching Colonial Art Histories — Emily C. Casey
Coda: Teaching (in) the Eighteenth(-)Century Now — Eugenia Zuroski

Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index