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Teaching with Vampires
About this book
This edited volume provides pedagogical tools for those who teach ā and would like to teach ā with the most iconic of monsters: the vampire. Vampires are showing up with increasing frequency in the college classroom and there are a growing number of courses devoted solely to the Undead. This collection draws from a diverse range of teaching approaches, including the theoretical framing of vampire texts in a broad range of settings, that demonstrate the myriad of ways vampires are used to teach about marginalization, empathy, and inspire social justice. With chapters from global scholars, this essential text illustrates the burgeoning field of vampire studies and the popularity in classrooms at every level around the world, from gothic fiction to television courses.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- 1.Ā Teaching with Vampires: An Introduction
- 2.Ā Teaching Social Justice Through Vampire Narratives
- 3.Ā Sink Your Teeth Into It! Black Vampires in an Asynchronous Literature Classroom
- 4.Ā Flatting Together in Really Small Countries: Teaching Clement and Waititiās What We Do in the Shadows as Kiwi Gothic
- 5.Ā Using Vampires in an Interdisciplinary Course to Explore Social Constructs and Literacy Development
- 6.Ā Making Monsters: Vampirism and Intersectionality in the Haunted Summer of 1816
- 7.Ā Giving and Getting Great Marks Across Time and the Curriculum: The Vampire as Concept in Establishing Standards of Excellence in Teacher Training
- 8.Ā Dark Matters: Dissecting Dracula in a School of Art and Design
- 9.Ā Becoming Vampire: Developing Creativity and Employability Skills in a Literature Module
- 10.Ā Privilege and Place: Teaching Anne Riceās Interview with the Vampire to Twenty-First-Century New Orleanians
- 11.Ā Teaching with The Walking (Un)dead
- 12.Ā You Want to Teach Feminism in a General Education Class? Try Monsters
- 13.Ā Hi, Iām Your Vampire Librarian! Utilizing Nosferatu as a Tool for Library Outreach and Education
- 14.Ā Afterward
- Back Matter