CFP: Special Issue, Teaching Gower
The MLA published its Approaches
to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower in 2011, starting a crucial conversation
about teaching Gower’s works across a range of contexts. This cluster of essays
intended for Studies in Medieval and
Renaissance Teaching will expand on the work of the 2011 MLA volume. Though considerable progress has been made in
bringing Gower’s works into the classroom, Gower is nonetheless
underrepresented in anthologies and thus on syllabi, and much less attention has been given to approaches to teaching his works. SMART has
expressed initial interest in a cluster of essays, somewhere between three and
eight pieces.
We welcome essays taking a range of approaches. Some potential approaches may include teaching
Gower’s multilingual and/or multicultural contexts; Gower and the digital humanities; Gower’s work
in the context of survey courses; and performative approaches to teaching
Gower. We are particularly interested in
pieces addressing teaching Gower in the context of the undergraduate classroom,
and we invite authors to include practical approaches for doing so.
All pieces should follow the latest Chicago Manual of Style guidelines and otherwise follow SMART’s
submission guidelines, available here. Final pieces should be approximately 2500
words, not including notes.
If interested in contributing, please contact kmcshane@ursinus.edu. Full-length drafts will be due no later than
30 December 2017.
