Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART)
Spring 2023 (Volume 30, Issue 1)
Papers in the featured collection appearing in the Spring 2023 issue of SMART, “Teaching John Gower’s Confessio Amantis,” are guest edited by Kara L. McShane from Ursinus College in Pennsylvania, and Brian W. Gastle from Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. They answer the question of the importance of selecting appropriate teaching materials for medieval studies classes, and either choosing the more familiar works that may have brought them to medieval studies or incorporating lesser-known works and authors as well as issues that relate to today’s social change. The authors in this collection address why the works of John Gower are not taught more widely today and why they should be. Various approaches to teaching his works are discussed.
KARA L. MCSHANE and BRIAN W. GASTLE Introduction: Why Teach Gower’s Works?
BRIAN W. GASTLE Teaching Gower’s Tale of Florent and Leveraging General Education Student Learning Outcomes
KARA L. MCSHANE John Gower as Protest Poet?
JEFFERY G. STOYANOFF Confessio Amantis in the Undergraduate Classroom: Using Actor-Network Theory to Teach Less Text More
GEORGIANA DONAVIN Gower and #MeToo
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BRIGITTE ROUSSEL Book Review: Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West, by Jamie Kreiner
WILLIAM F. HODAPP Book Review: Liber Uricrisiarum: A Reading Edition, edited by E. Ruth Harvey, M. Teresa Tavormina, with Sarah Star and C. E. M. Henderson
MICHAEL CALABRESE Book Review: Form & Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision, by A. W. Strauss
JENNY REBECCA RYTTING Book Review: How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education, by Scott Newstok
ROY HAMMERLING Book Review: The Life of St. Eufrosine: In Old French Verse, with English Translation, edited and translated by Amy V. Ogden
THOMAS GOODMANN Book Review: Piers Plowman: The A Version [by] William Langland: A New Translation with Introduction and Notes, by Michael Calabrese
PERRY NEIL HARRISON Book Review: Slow Scholarship: Medieval Research and the Neoliberal University, edited by Catherine E. Karkov
E. J. CHRISTIE Book Review: An Introduction to Old English, by Jonathan Evans
CHRISTINA FRANCIS Book Review: The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines, by Melissa Emerson Walter
ROBERT GRAYBILL Book Review: Shakespeare and the Idea of Western Civilization, by R. V. Young
YVONNE BRUCE Book Review: Christian Humanism in Shakespeare, by Lee Oser
Fall 2023 (Volume 30, Issue 2)
Forthcoming
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