Teaching Transatlanticism: Resources for Teaching Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Print Culture - Hardcover

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Linda K. Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature at TCU, specialises in historical media studies (poetry, periodicals, serial fiction); gender and women’s studies; and transnationality including transatlanticism. With Sarah R. Robbins she is co-editor of Teaching Transatlanticism (Edinburgh University Press, 2015) and with Julie Codell co-editor of Replication in the Long Nineteenth Century: Re-makings and Reproductions (Edinburgh University Press, 2018). Her monographs include The Victorian Serial (with Michael Lund, 1991), The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry (2010) and Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany: Cross-Cultural Freedoms and Female Opportunity (2022).

Sarah Ruffing Robbins is Lorraine Sherley Professor of Literature at TCU. Her nine academic books include Learning Legacies: Archive to Action through Women’s Cross-Cultural Teaching (2017), the award-winning Nellie Arnott’s Writings on Angola, 1905-1913 (2011) and Teaching Transatlanticism (Edinburgh University Press, 2015).

Linda K. Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature at TCU, specializes in the intersections of 19th-century gender, genre, and publishing history, including transnational circulation. Co-editor of A Feminist Reader: Feminist Thought from Sappho to Satrapi (4 vol., Cambridge UP, 2013) and author of The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry (2010), she won the biennial British Women Writers Association Award for scholarly contributions and mentoring (2012), and several TCU teaching awards.

Sarah Robbins, author/editor of seven books, is Lorraine Sherley Professor of Literature at TCU, where she teaches American literature and transatlantic and cross-cultural studies. Before coming to TCU, she served as founding director of a National Writing Project site in Georgia, where she earned the Governor's Humanities Award for programs including the National Endowment for the Humanities-funded "Domesticating the Secondary Canon," "Making American Literatures," and "Keeping and Creating American Communities."

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An essential resource for teaching nineteenth-century print culture in Transatlantic StudiesThe 19 chapters in this book outline conceptual approaches to the eld and provide practical resources for teaching, ranging from ideas for individual class sessions to full syllabi and curricular frameworks.The book is in 5 key sections – Curricular Histories and Key Trends; Organising Curriculum through Transatlantic Lenses; Teaching Transatlantic Figures; Teaching Genres in Transatlantic Context; and Envisioning Digital Transatlanticism – together with an Introduction and Afterward which draw together themes and topics covered in the individual chapters. Contributions from experts in the eld range from reconceptualising entire courses to revisiting individual texts, authors, and genres in a transatlantic context. Weaving in strategies from innovative teaching shaped by the digital humanities, the collection also looks ahead to the future of this growing field.A dedicated Teaching Transatlanticism website accompanies the book.Available at: https://teachingtransatlanticism.tcu.edu/Key Features• Chapters address both conceptual and practical issues• Classroom accounts address multiple genres, issues, and media• Re ections on real-world teaching contexts are blended with scholarly analysis of key issues in the field today• The specially designed project website supports the book and invites continued conversations through a moderated discussion space and submission venue for readers’ own teaching materialsLinda K. Hughes is Addie Levy Professor of Literature at TCU. She is co-editor of the four-volume A Feminist Reader: Feminist Thought from Sappho to Satrapi (2013) and author of The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry (2010).Sarah Robbins is author/editor of seven books and is Lorraine Sherley Professor of Literature at TCU, where she teaches American literature andtransatlantic and cross-cultural studies.