English Studies Online

Programs, Practices, Possibilities

Willam P. Banks, Susan Spangler, Willam P. Banks, Susan Spangler

• Publisher: Parlor Press, LLC
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781643172613
• eBook ISBN:
  9781643172637
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Inclusive Education

English Studies Online: Programs, Practices, Possibilities represents a collection of essays by established teacher-scholars across English Studies who offer critical commentary on how they have worked to create and sustain high-impact online programs (majors, minors, certificates) and courses in the field. Ultimately, these chapters explore the programs and classroom practices that can help faculty across English Studies to think carefully and critically about the changes that online education affords us, the rich possibilities such courses and programs bring, and some potential problems they can introduce into our department and college ecologies. By highlighting both innovative pedagogies and hybrid methods, the authors in our collection demonstrate how we might engage these changes more productively. Divided into three interrelated conversations — practices, programs, and possibilities — the essays in this collection demonstrate some of the innovative pedagogical work going on in English departments around the United States in order to highlight how both hybrid and fully online programs in English Studies can help us to more meaningfully and purposefully enact the values of a liberal arts education. This collection serves as both a cautionary history of teaching practices and programs that have developed in English Studies and a space to support faculty and administrators in making the case for why and how humanities disciplines can be important contributors to digital teaching and learning.Contributors include Joanne Addison, William P. Banks, Lisa Beckelhimer, Dev K. Bose, Elizabeth Burrows, Amy Cicchino, Erin A. Frost, Heidi Skurat Harris, John Havard, Marcela Hebbard, Stephanie Hedge, Ashley J. Holmes, George Jensen, Karen Kuralt, Michele Griegel-McCord, Samantha McNeilly, Lilian Mina, Catrina Mitchum, Janine Morris, Michael Neal, Cynthia Nitz Ris, Rochelle Rodrigo, Cecilia Shelton, Susan Spangler, Katelyn Stark, Eric Sterling, and Richard C. Taylor.

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction: Moving English Studies Online
• 2 Designing Online Programs for Student Engagement and Community Building: Three Programs at the University of Arkansas at Lit le Rock
• 3 Lessons Learned: Navigating Online Teaching and Learning in English Studies
• 4 Making Pedagogically Responsible Decisions in Online Course Programming
• 5 It Takes a Village to Create Successful Online Composition Courses
• 6 Teaching “Teaching Technologies in English Studies”: Training a New Generation of Teachers
• 7 Virtual Literature Circles: Re-Embodying Discussion in Online Literature Courses
• 8 Redesigning Assignment Sheets for Online Teaching: A Case Study in Universal Design and Multimodality
• 9 Experimental Research and Reflective Teaching Practice in Online Writing Instruction
• 10 More Than Replication: Online Pedagogy Informing Face-to-Face Writing Instruction
• 11 A Tale of Two Courses: Class Discussion Issues in English Studies Online
• 12 It’s on the Syllabus: Notes from a Black Professor Teaching English Studies Online
• 13 Expanding Instructional Contexts: Why Student Backgrounds Matter to Online Teaching and Learning
• 14 Teaching Ethically Online: Using Universal Design for Learning and Predesigned Courses to Increase Accessibility
• 15 Performing Identities in Cyberspace: Imagining the Online Multicultural Learning Community
• 16 Lessons from Journalism: Developing Online Programs for the Public Good
• Contributors
• Index
• Back cover