Teaching Texts with Technology: Reading African American Literature in the Digital Age
Abstract
This will be a participatory workshop that explores multiple ways to engage and enhance cultural readings and to examine the style and language of written texts. “My Father’s Name: A Black Virginia Family After the War,” a memoir by Lawrence Jackson, will be the work discussed. The workshop presents a pedagogical model inviting new ways of teaching writing and literature. All iPads and other devices are welcome. Twitter will be the vehicle for the interactive community.
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Presented on April 23, 2012, University of Kansas. Sponsored by the Project on the History of Black Writing: http://www2.ku.edu/~phbw/Dr. Claiborne is a professor of English and American Literature at Morehouse College. She received a doctorate from The Ohio State University, and was also affiliate faculty for the Jonathan Jasper Wright Institute for the Study of Southern African American History, Culture, and Policy at Claflin University. In 2009, she was awarded a UNCF/Mellon Fellowship at Harvard University. She’s currently the Coordinator for the Digital Humanities Initiative at Morehouse College.
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