Session Details

Saturday, 30 December

686. What’s Theory Got to Do with It? Literary Theory and Future Undergraduates

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 410, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the College English Association

Presiding: Kathy Rugoff, Univ. of North Carolina, Wilmington

1. “Where Theory Meets Practice: The Function of Theory in the English Classroom,” Patricia Comitini, Quinnipiac Univ.

2. “Reception and Literary Theory: Teaching Hamlet,” Philip Goldstein, Univ. of Delaware, Wilmington

3. “Beyond Boomer Narratives: Teaching Theory through an Integrationist Antiperiodization Approach,” Matthew Biberman, Univ. of Louisville

4. “Theory’s Unteaching: Unease as Success in the Classroom,” Saikat Majumdar, McMaster Univ.

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