"Cultural Studies and the Classroom: Possibilities and Problematics of
Utilizing Cultural Studies and its Texts in the Classroom"
May 3, 2005

In this roundtable, Melanie Kill and Lisa Thornhill (both Doctoral
Candidates, English--Language and Rhetoric) discuss the possibilities and
problematics of utilizing a cultural studies framework in the classroom.
Their goals are: 1) to examine the usefulness of adapting a cultural studies
ideology to the pedagogical purposes of the classroom and 2) to explore what the use of cultural studies texts actually does for the teaching of writing.
Among the critical questions they will consider in the roundtable are the
following: How does such an ideology invite students to engage? How does the decentered teacher and/or student cultivate student writing? What does it
mean to put student discourse in the public sphere? And under what
circumstances can such activities prove ineffective or problematic?

[about] [roundtables] [lecture series] [calendar] [past events] [reading group]