Workshop. Queering Faulkner: Teaching Faulkner in an Age of Censorship
Location
Location TBD
Start Date
25-7-2023 8:30 AM
Description
Book banning has become the norm in today’s culture, leading to an unprecedented removal of books from libraries and classrooms. Books that high school teachers have been teaching for years are coming under fire, and yet we know that these texts help students explore identity and develop empathy. How, in the face of an ever-restricting high school canon, can we continue to explore issues of vital interest to our students, including racial, gender, and sexual identity? In addition to resisting these restrictions on our libraries, we want to suggest that how we read is as important as what we read. Teaching queer reading strategies of canonical texts is an effective way to resist and continue to teach our students about diversity and critical thinking. We invite you to a workshop focusing on Faulkner’s short stories that are often taught in high school. In a discussion led by four veteran teachers, we will explore how to navigate classroom instruction and create writing assignments that might be created around these stories. Led by Jaime Harker, Ellen Shelton, and other veteran teachers, the workshop will explore how the elements in each story could be used to help students explore identity, conformity, and sexual and gender variance. Participants will be emailed the short stories before the conference; in the workshop, we will engage in facilitated conversation and end with a general discussion about teaching strategies and resisting censorship.
Relational Format
Conference proceeding
Recommended Citation
Harker, Jaime and Shelton, Ellen, "Workshop. Queering Faulkner: Teaching Faulkner in an Age of Censorship" (2023). Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. 10.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/fy/2023/schedule/10
Workshop. Queering Faulkner: Teaching Faulkner in an Age of Censorship
Location TBD
Book banning has become the norm in today’s culture, leading to an unprecedented removal of books from libraries and classrooms. Books that high school teachers have been teaching for years are coming under fire, and yet we know that these texts help students explore identity and develop empathy. How, in the face of an ever-restricting high school canon, can we continue to explore issues of vital interest to our students, including racial, gender, and sexual identity? In addition to resisting these restrictions on our libraries, we want to suggest that how we read is as important as what we read. Teaching queer reading strategies of canonical texts is an effective way to resist and continue to teach our students about diversity and critical thinking. We invite you to a workshop focusing on Faulkner’s short stories that are often taught in high school. In a discussion led by four veteran teachers, we will explore how to navigate classroom instruction and create writing assignments that might be created around these stories. Led by Jaime Harker, Ellen Shelton, and other veteran teachers, the workshop will explore how the elements in each story could be used to help students explore identity, conformity, and sexual and gender variance. Participants will be emailed the short stories before the conference; in the workshop, we will engage in facilitated conversation and end with a general discussion about teaching strategies and resisting censorship.