秘密研究所

Indya Jackson Wins Teaching Fellowship

Dr. Indya Jackson, assistant professor of African-American literature, has been awarded a teaching fellowship by (DEFCon) to develop two digital humanities projects at 秘密研究所.

One project is for the English and literary studies senior seminar in the School of Humanities and Global Studies. The question guiding the seminar is, 鈥淗ow do marginalized communities use satire as a form of resistance?鈥� Students will engage with texts such as Paul Beatty鈥檚 The Sellout, Charles Yu鈥檚聽Interior Chinatown, Mosin Hamid鈥檚聽The Last White Man, and Chinelo Okparanta鈥檚聽Harry Sylvester Bird. Jackson aims 鈥渢o incorporate into the course the social annotation of assigned criticism鈥� and anticipates that 鈥渟tudents will meaningfully and critically engage with challenging academic texts in an interactive way.鈥�

The second project focuses on the creation of an online exhibit showcasing audio and visual materials related to assigned readings. Exhibited materials will likely include audio recordings of authors reading from their work, video interviews with scholars, and/or original audio and visual art that relates to the course themes. Jackson expects that the exhibit 鈥渨ill provide a unique, yet critical means through which students can explore and connect with the course material.鈥�

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