Reading While Walking:

Katharine Anne Keenan; Darwin Tsen

doi:10.22582/ta.v9i2.540

Reading While Walking

A Reflection on Interdisciplinary Co-Teaching

Katharine Anne Keenan University Wisconsin Parkside
Darwin Tsen Carthage College

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v9i2.540

Abstract

This reflection focuses on how the opportunity to co-teach across disciplines illuminates the interconnections between literary criticism and ethnographic methodology. We discuss the value of walking as a way of knowing and of creative genres as modes of representation. Through the class’s final project, a multimedia map of Kenosha, we see the benefits of a combined literary and ethnographic approach in our students’ rigorously observed and sensitively rendered presentations.

1918 influenza epidemic St. Louis Red Cross Motor Corps personnel wear masks as they hold stretchers next to ambulances in preparation for victims of the influenza epidemic in October 1918. (Library of Congress)

Keenan pp. 51-55 pdf

Published

2020-04-16

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 2 (2020): Spring issue

Section

Developing Teaching: Reports and Reflections

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