Welcome to the English Department’s “Public Pedagogies” page!
“Public Pedagogies,” along with “Literature, Language, Culture: A Dialogue Series,” is part of a larger University of Washington English department effort to articulate our mission, values, and work across communities, as well as to enable and support public research, advocacy, and partnership.
Teaching is a shared, connected, and – most of all – public enterprise. So is learning, as students bring experiences and knowledges across communities and classrooms. This “Public Pedagogies” page creates a space for both exchanging teaching ideas and extending connections between the UW English department, community colleges, and local educators.
In launching this initiative, we have developed teaching materials that accompany our “Literature, Language, Culture Dialogues,” a video and podcast series highlighting faculty research and teaching on topics ranging from literature and the environment, technical and professional writing, genre, Asian American literature, digital humanities, Indigenous literature and art, antriracist pedagogy, and trans and queer studies. While these lesson plans and explanation videos are a starting point for “Public Pedagogies,” we aim to create a collective space for the sharing of teaching resources designed to support learning from other episodes in the series and similar audiovisual text resources.
Below you will find a curated video playlist of six lesson plans related to three of the episodes: Prof. Michelle Liu’s “What Asian American Studies, Literature, and Art Teaches us During COVID-19”, Prof. Douglas S. Ishii’s “Crazy Rich Asians, Critical University Studies, and Queer of Color Theory”, and Prof. Lydia Heberling’s “How Reading Multimodal Literature Can Support Indigenous Sovereignty.” For each of the three episodes, we offer two lesson plans: one adapted for composition courses and one for literature and culture courses.
Special thank you to C.R. Grimmer (Public Scholarship Project Director & Series Editor) and Jake Huebsch (Project Manager & Lead Video Editor) for making the “Literature, Language, Culture” series possible, and to Rebecca Taylor for developing the teaching resources below.
