STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE TEACHING
CURRENT ISSUE INFORMATION
The Fall 2009 issue of Volume 15 of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching features a collection of essays on "Pedagogy of History of the English Language," guest edited by K. Aaron Smith and Susan M. Kim from Illinois State University. The collection began as a roundtable discussion at the Forty-First International Congress on Medieval Studies held in 2006 at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. The articles focus on approaches to teaching the history of the English language and on how teaching HEL can become an opportunuty to bridge disciplinary and institutional boundaries.
This issue of SMART also offers three exceptional articles on teaching the English Reformation through the music of Thoams Tallis, an interdisciplinary approach to teaching The Dream of the Rood, and teaching Judith in a survey course. The volume concludes with five equally fine book reivews.
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Fall 2008 (Volume 15, Issue 2)
Pedagogy of History of the English Language
(guest edited by Aaron Smith and Susan M. Kim)
K. AARON SMITH and SUSAN M. KIM Introduction
HARUKO MOMMA Prefatory Remarks by the Roundtable Organizer: How the Project Began and Where It Might Go from Here
MICHAEL MATTO Standard English and Standards of English: Where HEL Meets Composition Studies
ROBERT STANTON Reaching High School Teachers and Students in the HEL Classroom
EDWIN DUNCAN Reaching Out: The Web as a Learning Tool
ROBERT D. STEVICK Seasoned Suggestions for Teaching the History of English
MOIRA FITZGIBBONS Using Gullah as a Focal Point in an HEL Course
K. AARON SMITH and SUSAN M. KIM Fighting in Public: Approaches to Team Teaching HEL and Bridging English Studies
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MAIRI COWAN Teaching the English Reformation to History Students Through the Music of Thomas Tallis
MARCIA SMITH MARZEC Reading the Cross: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching The Dream of the Rood
ERIN MULLALLY The New Girl in School: Teaching Judith in a Survey Course
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ANNA DRONZEK Book Review: Necessary Conjuncitons: The Social Self in Medieval England, by David Gary Shaw
JAY RUDD Book Review: Chaucer and the City, edited by Ardis Butterfield
SIAN ECHARD Book Review: Print Culture and the Medieval Author--Chaucer, Lydgate, and their books 1473-1557, by Alexandra Gillespie
C. DAVID BENSON Book Review: Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales: A Casebook, edited by Lee Patterson
SANDY FEINSTEIN Book Review: Horse and Man in Early Modern England, by Peter Edwards