They write their essays; they read each others essays; and they workshop their colleagues’ essays. That’s the final moment of our class, not a soaring feel-good speech from me, but the students as creators of knowledge that is then given to the people.
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After class, students will submit their
#PublicShakespeare essays to their venues of choice. Last semester, one of our essays got picked up by@PublicSeminar. We’re hoping for even more this semester.http://www.publicseminar.org/2018/12/what-shakespeare-can-tell-us-about-school-shootings/ …1 vastaus 1 uudelleentwiittaus 2 tykkäystäNäytä tämä ketju -
Our day of public writing is framed as an alternative to both academic writing (scholars speaking only to each other) and creative projects (which are increasingly replacing the argumentative paper as course capstones).
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Public writing allows us to use creativity in the service of an argument. Public writing shouldn’t replace academic writing, but it is an important change to the mode of articulating scholarship - a skill - rarely addressed explicitly in the humanities.
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Public writing gets us out of our specialist enclaves, where we are addressing already like-minded people, if not preaching to the choir. It gets us talking to people who might think differently, or don’t understand why humanities scholarship matters.
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Public writing is our challenge to demonstrate, in concrete ways, the defense-of-the-humanities argument we’ve been making for years. It’s an opportunity to show, not tell, that humanities scholarship matters for the lives we lead.
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We too seldom take on that challenge, I think (admittedly, there’s a structural professional system - tenure - discouraging junior scholars from public writing: that’s why I think we need a peer-reviewed Journal of the
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I suspect a pretty significant fear of the unknown often prevents humanities scholars from public writing, though we perform that fear as holier-than-thou professionalism refusing to debase itself from the dignified glories of scholarship.
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But public writing illustrates what some scholars scoff at (why?): our work has what social scientists call “policy implications,” and opens avenues to what human beings call “happiness.”
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Shakespeare studies is particularly well positioned for
#publichumanities because his works - both very old texts imbued with history and constantly performed today all around us - help us bring the past into conversation with the present.1 vastaus 0 uudelleentwiittausta 3 tykkäystäNäytä tämä ketju
Thanks for sharing this. I’m contemplating a similar assignment next semester, and your resources will be very helpful!
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Amazing. Let's stay in touch about it. Would be good to compare notes, and to build up a network of and for people interested in this sort of thing.
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