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Tag Archives: L2 Literature Pedagogy
Cartographic Narratives: Using Data and Mapping Principles to Teach L2 Literature
One of my main goals in teaching second-language (L2) Spanish Literature courses is to develop non-traditional tasks that demonstrate the value of reading for the development of the target language. Students often perceive literature classes as boring, difficult, or irrelevant – and who can blame them? Literature pedagogy, in either the L1 or the L2 leaves much to be desired… if it exists at all. Continue reading
Posted in Art, History, Literature, Modernity, Pedagogy, Spain
Tagged Carmen de Burgos, L2 Literature Pedagogy, La rampa, La Venus mecanica, madrid, maps, spanish literature, urban studies
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New Books, Creative Maps, and Literary Art for 2021… plus my optimistic(!) 2020 re-cap
In 2020 I had the lofty goal of posting something new to the blog each month — and while I started out strong in January and February… for obvious global-pandemic-related reasons that pattern did not hold up! I managed 5 … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Feminism, Language, Literature, Pedagogy, Spain
Tagged art, Carmen de Burgos, Don Quijote de la Mancha, Don Quixote, L2 Literature Pedagogy, maps, Maria Sanchez, pedagogy, Quijote, rural, snapchat
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Don Quijote, the Graphic Novel, and Snapchat: Alternative Assessments in the L2 Literature Classroom
For this post, I’m sharing details of my most recent article, “Snapping the Quijote: Examining L2 Literature, Social Media, and Digital Storytelling through a Cervantine Lens”, which was published in September 2020 in Hispania (vol. 103, no. 2, pp. 323-39). … Continue reading
Mapping Madrid through Art, Literature, and Creative Cartography
Since this fall semester is clearly “unprecedented”, unpredictable, and a whole host of adjectives that are pretty much ALL stress-inducing, I am taking the opportunity to experiment in my senior-seminar on 20th-century Spain. Last fall I taught a similar course … Continue reading
Posted in Art, History, Literature, Pedagogy, Spain, Spanish Civil War
Tagged guernica, L2 Literature Pedagogy, madrid, maps, museo reina sofia, Pablo Picasso, pedagogy, poetry, spanish civil war, teaching
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