Observations, Ideas, and Suggestions
18 July 2008

Christine Rose (Portland State University)
Teaching Chaucer in the 90s
From a session of the New Chaucer Society, Trinity College, Dublin (July 24, 1994), published by MRTS and Exemplaria (1996). One long file (208K) with ten papers: an introduction by C. Rose (the editor); "Interdisciplinary Chaucer" by S. K. Hagen; "Theory and Pedagogy" by C. Kinney; "On Literacy" by T. Goodman; "Teaching Chaucer at the Community College" by C. Folks; "The Disenchanted Classroom" by L. Patterson; "Questions of Subjectivity and Ideology in the Production of an Electronic Text of the Canterbury Tales" by P. Remley; "Teaching Chaucer as Drama: The Garden Scene in the Shipman's Tale" by P. G. Beidler; "Teaching Chaucer in a Small Catholic Liberal Arts College" by V. B. Richmond; and "Teaching Chaucer through the Fifteenth Century" by D. J. Pinti.

Susan K. Hagen (Birmingham-Southern College)
Chaucer Online
A Report on Teaching Chaucer with Electronic Resources and The Teaching Chaucer Electronic Bulletin Board." Presented at the Southeastern Medieval Association Conference Baylor University, 3-6 October 1996. "The following is a report on things tried, learned, evaluated, and revised in EH 350 "Chaucer's Canterbury Tales" at Birmingham-Southern College in the spring term 1996.... N.B. This course was not taught on-line; rather it was augmented with on-line resources and assignments."

Susan K. Hagen (Birmingham-Southern College)
Team Teaching Middle English Literature With Flannery O'Connor
"The scholarship documenting Flannery O'Connor's reading of medieval authors, elucidating the scriptural implications of her character and place names, attesting to the overall medieval tone/mood of her fiction exists in rich abundance. If we can so enrich an understanding of O'Connor with medieval texts and contexts, why not use our students' receptivity to her fiction to help us enrich their understanding of a medieval mentality. Why not team-teach with Flannery O'Connor?"

Mary Wack (Washington State University)
Chaucer in 2001
Prof. Wack describes her experiences teaching Chaucer with an image database at Stanford. See also Electronic Chaucer.

University of Montana
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART)
No online essays, but does give contents of each issue--though no page numbers--for all volumes (1990-present).

Please send comments to David Wilson-Okamura at david@virgil.org.