Repurposing the Sentimental: Teaching Archives to Illumine the Use of a Literary Tradition to Engender Social Reform
Heather Fox
University of South Florida
Heather Fox teaches interdisciplinary approaches to American literature, with particular interests in women’s literature and archive studies, at the University of South Florida. She will be joining the faculty at Eastern Kentucky University as an assistant professor of English in August 2018. A 2015-2016 Frances S. Summersell Fellow and a 2014 Phi Kappa Phi award recipient, her work on women writers has been published in esteemed journals, such as South, Janus Head, and Southern Studies. Currently, she is writing a monograph that situates the selection and arrangement of previously published short stories as a form of social commentary.
Abstract
Applying these concepts within the practice of her own archival pedagogy, in "Repurposing the Sentimental: Teaching Archives to Illumine the Use of a Literary Tradition to Engender Social Reform,” Heather Fox describes a... [ view full abstract ]
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- Heather Fox (University of South Florida)
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P44 » Untangling “Difficult Collaborations”: Nineteenth-Century Archives in the Climate of Twenty-First Century Classrooms (14:00 - Friday, 23rd March, Enchantment A)
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