Teaching, Technology, Textuality: Approaches to New Media (Teaching the New English)

This collection of original essays discusses the implications of the new media for the creation, delivery and assessment of English studies. Strategies by which digital technologies can serve professional, scholarly and pedagogical needs in a completely new way are explored in the context of the role and mission of humanities in the electronic age. This exciting volume in the Teaching the New English series is concerned with establishing the ways in which English Studies, with its capacity to embrace a diversity of practices, methodologies, voices, and even subjects, realizes its potential for interdisciplinarity by incorporating new media into its teaching. The World Wide Web has firmly established English as the lingua franca of the Internet. With this development in mind, the volume seeks to provide a cross-cultural representation of how teachers and students on both sides of the Atlantic have embraced new technologies and media at the beginning of the Internet Age. Featuring a useful Glossary of Terms and lists of Further Reading & Key Individuals in the field, this will be an essential volume for all teachers of English Studies Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Introduction....Pages 1-8 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 The Humanities....Pages 11-26 A Threat to Professional Identity? The Resistance to Computer-Mediated Teaching....Pages 27-35 Intellectual Property and the Humanities....Pages 36-53 Front Matter....Pages 55-55 Putting IT into the English Syllabus ....Pages 57-68 A Technology of Our Own....Pages 69-80 Postcolonial Pedagogical Thresholds....Pages 81-89 Front Matter....Pages 91-91 All Aboard Blackboard....Pages 93-104 American Cultural Studies and e-Teaching Internationally....Pages 105-121 Transatlantic Exchanges....Pages 122-131 Front Matter....Pages 133-133 Audience, Purpose, and Medium....Pages 135-147 The Rhetoric of New Media....Pages 148-161 Learning Secretary....Pages 162-175 Back Matter....Pages 176-193 The Humanities / Alan Liu -- A Threat To Professional Identity? / Bryan Alexander -- Intellectual Property And The Humanities / Christopher Kelty -- Putting It Into The English Syllabus / Stuart Lee -- A Technology Of Our Own / Jim O'loughlin -- Postcolonial Pedagogical Thresholds / Leon Litvack -- All Aboard Blackboard / Lisa Botshon -- American Cultural Studies And E-teaching Internationally / Dorothea Fischer-hornung And Wolfgang Holtkamp -- Transatlantic Exchanges / Duco Van Oostrum -- Audience, Purpose, And Medium / Eric S. Robkin -- The Rhetoric Of New Media / Jeff Rice -- Learning Secretary Hand / Andrew Booth, David Lindley, And Oliver Pickering. Edited By Michael Hanrahan And Deborah L. Madsen. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 178-187) And Index. Discusses how English studies can enhance its interdisciplinary potential by incorporating new media into its teaching.