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Disability Studies
and cultural theory; others share their assignments and weekly syllabi. Many essays grapple with texts that represent disability, illness, abuse, and depression; ethnic, sexual and racial discrimination; crises and catastrophes; witnessing and testimonials; human rights violations; and genocide. The classes described are taught in humanities, cultural studies, social science, and language
decolonize the classroom, addressing works from Africa, New Zealand, Asia, and Latin America and issues such as queer ecofeminism, disability, Latinx literary production, animal studies, interdisciplinarity, and working with environmental justice organizations.
that aim to explore the intersectionalities represented in these works. Experienced teachers offer guidance on using these works to introduce students to border studies, transnational studies, sexuality studies, disability studies, contemporary Mexican history and Latino history in the United States, the history of social movements, and concepts of race and gender.
issues of humanity and society. The essays—by contributors from diverse fields, from writing studies to nursing, engineering, and architecture—demonstrate innovative classroom practices and curricular design that place fairness and the situatedness of language at the center of writing instruction. Contributors reflect on a wide range of examples, from a disability-as-insight model to reckoning with
American Literature Disability Studies Feminist and Gender Studies LGBTQ
Disability Studies Feminist and Gender Studies Postcolonial Literature South Asian Literature
Teaching Queer Cinema with Independent Media (63) Patricia White Teaching Film and Disability Studies (74) Raphael Raphael Part II: Geographies of Cinema Introduction (89) Teaching Indian Cinema (92) Neepa Majumdar Teaching Latin American and Caribbean Cinema (101) Cristina Venegas Teaching Accented Cinema as a Global Cinema (112) Hamid Naficy Reconsidering New German Cinema (119) Eric Rentschler
British Literature Disability Studies Feminist and Gender Studies
African American Studies American Literature Disability Studies Feminist and Gender Studies Speculative Fiction
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