Issue 17.1 (Spring 2021)
Special Issue: “Teaching to Transgress” in the Emergency Remote Classroom

Guest-Edited by Kimberly Cox, Shannon Draucker, and Doreen Thierauf

Introduction

Kimberly Cox, Shannon Draucker, and Doreen Thierauf, “‘Teaching to Transgress’ in the Emergency Remote Classroom”

Articles

Alexandra L. Milsom, “Assessing and Transgressing: On the Racist Origins of Academic Standardization”

Lana L. Dalley, “Confronting “White Feminism” in the Victorian Literature Classroom”

Pedagogy Shorts

Coping with Crisis

Travis Chi Wing Lau, “Access from Afar: Cultivating Inclusive, Flexible Classrooms after COVID-19”

Helena Goodwyn, “Coping Strategies in the 2020-21 Virtual Classroom: A Tribute to my Students”

Jessica R. Valdez, “Learning in a Time of Crisis: Reimagining Global Policing in the Literature Classroom”

Amanda Mingail Shubert, “Contracts for a Time of Crisis: What I Learned from Grading in a Pandemic”

Doreen Thierauf, “Feeling Better: A Year without Deadlines”

Creating Digital Learning Communities

Talia Vestri, “Speaking through Screens: Connecting with Global Learners Using Slack, Slides, and Screencasts”

Kimberly Cox, “A Lesson in Zoom: Teaching Students How to Learn Remotely”

April Patrick, “Giving Everyone a Voice: How In-Class Annotation Creates More Equitable Synchronous Courses”

Shannon Draucker, “Google Jamboard and Playful Pedagogy in the Emergency Remote Classroom”

Andrew Rimby, “Talking Back to Walt Whitman Using a Queer of Color Framework, VoiceThreads, and Virtual Walking Tours”

Carrie Dickison, “Reducing Cognitive Load: Applying the Community of Inquiry (CoI) Framework to LMS Discussion Boards”

Imagining Collaborative Assignments

Christa DiMarco, “Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party Goes Virtual: Engaged Performance in the Online Classroom”

Gabrielle Kappes, “Instagramming Caribbean Women Writers: Multimodal and Digital Pedagogies in Remote Teaching”

Riya Das, “Transgressing with Rediscovery: The ‘Forgotten No More’ Essay”

Christie Harner, “Transgressive Seriality: Netflix, the Victorian Novel, and Student Novellas in the 2020 Classroom”

Bettina Tate Pedersen, “Collaboration and Community Building with Print and Digital Platforms in the Remote Classroom”

Appendix

List of Materials

Reviews

Katie Baker, review of Valerie Sander's Margeret Oliphant

Sophie Franklin, review of Emma Butcher's The Brontës and War: Fantasy and Conflict in Charlotte and Branwell Brontë’s Youthful Writings

Jennifer Phegley, review of Karen Bourrier's Victorian Bestseller: The Life of Dinah Craik