Social Justice resources:

Job-market help and advice: 

Resources for Teaching Literature and Pedagogy:

  • The Science Behind Stereotypes

  • Gerald Graff, Beyond the Culture Wars (1992)

  • Gerald Graff, Professing Literature: An Institutional History (1987)

  • Elaine Showalter, Teaching Literature (2002)

  • Sheridan Blau, Literature Workshop: Teaching Texts and Their Readers (2003)

  • Cristina Bruns, Why Literature? (2011)

  • Kathleen Blake Yancey, Teaching Literature as Reflective Practice (2004)

  • Toby Fulwiler and Art Young, eds. When Writing Teachers Teach Literature: Bringing Writing to Reading (1995)

  • Rita Felski, Uses of Literature (2008)

  • Rita Felski, Literature after Feminism (2003)

  • Lisa Zunshine, “Why Fiction Does It Best” (2012)

  • Lisa Zunshine, Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies (2010)

  • Mark Bracher, Literature and Social Justice (2013)

  • March Bracher, “Teaching for Social Justice: Re-educating the Emotions through Literary Study” (2006)

  • David Miall, Literary Reading: Empirical and Theoretical Studies (2006)

  • Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2004)

  • Counternarratives: Cultural studies and Critical Pedagogies in Postmodern Spaces (1996), eds. Henry Giroux, Colin Lankshear, Peter McLaren, and Michael Peters

  • Laura Wilder, Rhetorical Strategies and Genre Conventions in Literary Studies: Teaching and Writing in the Disciplines (2012)

  •  Robert Scholes, Textual Power (1985)

  •  Michael Apple, Teachers and Texts (1987)

  •  David Barton and Mary Hamilton, Situated Literacies- Reading and Writing in Context (1998)

  • Joshua Landy, How to Do Things with Fictions (2012)

  • Amy Devitt, “Integrating Rhetorical and Literary Theories of Genre” (2000)

  • Amy Devitt, “Teaching Critical Genre Awareness” (2009)

  • Anis Bawarshi, “The Genre Function” (2000)

  • Wai-chi Dimock, “Introduction- Genres as Fields of Knowledge” (2007)

  • John Frow, Genre (2006)

  • Lisa Maria Hogeland, Feminism and Its Fictions (1998)

  • Deanne Bogdan, Re-Educating the Imagination: Toward a Poetics, Politics, and Pedagogy of Literary Engagement (1992)

  • Criticalreading.com