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Innovative Approaches to Teaching with Norton Anthologies

With Aarthi Vadde, Jonathan Najarian, and Colleen Clemens

Friday, March 22nd at 1 p.m. ET

Are you interested in new ways to teach with Norton Anthologies? Join this online event to hear from three professors on exciting approaches that have engaged their classrooms. Topics include: presenting works on environmental literature and climate change, encouraging students to go beyond what’s assigned, and using Norton’s thematic tables of contents to build syllabi and put texts in dialogue.

Each presenter will speak for five to ten minutes and will provide practical advice on how you can implement the same or similar approaches with your own students. There will be ample time for questions and the chat will be open for discussion.

All registrants will receive a recording of the event, so please register if you’re interested, even if you cannot attend live.

Our speakers:

Aarthi Vadde (Duke University / coeditor: The Norton Anthology of English Literature)

Vadde is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. She is the author of Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, which won the Harry Levin Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association. She is the co-editor of The Critic as Amateur and has been a fellow of the National Humanities Center for her book-in-progress We the Platform: Contemporary Literature after Web 2.0. She is also the co-founder of Novel Dialogue, a podcast about how novels are made--and what to make of them.

Jonathan Najarian (Colgate University)

Najarian is Visiting Assistant Professor at Colgate University, where he teaches in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric. His teaching spans from surveys of global literature to seminars in visual rhetoric and comics. He is also the editor of Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture (University Press of Mississippi, 2024).

Colleen Clemens (Kutztown University / coauthor: Teaching with The Norton Anthology of World Literature: A Guide for Instructors)

Clemens is Professor of English and Director of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Kutztown University, has been in the classroom for almost thirty years, and is committed to using her teaching experience along with her scholarship to improve students' experiences learning literature and writing and to support faculty who find themselves having more and more added to their workload. Most recently she published Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies. Her work has been published in World Literature Today and other magazines, a variety of anthologies, and several peer-reviewed journals.

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Lit Talk: Emily Wilson on the Power of Translation

With Emily Wilson

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Join Emily Wilson (lauded translator and co-editor of The Norton Anthology of World Literature) for a lively conversation on the power of translation. In this webinar, Wilson will discuss her approach to translation, how it differs from others, and will read an excerpt from her recently-published translation of The Iliad. This event is free and open to all interested, and we will have time for an audience Q&A. All registrants will receive a recording of this event.

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The Making of a Norton Anthology

With Stephen Greenblatt, Martin Puchner, Wiebke Denecke, and Courtney Weiss Smith

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Join anthology editors Stephen Greenblatt and Courtney Weiss Smith (the Norton Anthology of English Literature) with Martin Puchner and Wiebke Denecke (the Norton Anthology of World Literature) in conversation with members of the Norton Literature team. These editors will have a lively discussion about their experiences editing these latest editions, some new features and selections, and how they have adapted the anthologies to best suit today’s students and classrooms.

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Lit Talk: Glory Edim & Kelly Mays in Conversation

With Glory Edim and Kelly Mays

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Ever wish your literature class felt more like your best book club? Join Glory Edim, celebrated writer and founder of Well-Read Black Girl and Norton author Kelly Mays for a lively conversation about creating community through the reading of (and writing about) short stories.

Bring your own questions for Edim and Mays for the live Q&A following their 30-minute conversation.

All students, faculty, and fiction lovers are welcome, and all registrants will receive a recording of the event so please register if you're interested, even if you cannot attend live.

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Archived Events

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"Transforming the Canon: The Challenge of World Literature." Hosted by Martin Puchner, Harvard University

In this online event, Martin Puchner discusses reimagining the English Department as a center of world literature—with practical steps that departments and faculty members can take to effect this transformation.

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