Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2020
Publication Title
Spenser Studies
Abstract
This essay discusses some difficulties of teaching Renaissance engagements with race, class, and gender in diverse twenty-first-century classrooms and looks to contemporary romance—science fiction and fantasy—for examples of humane and reparative pedagogy. Ursula K. Le Guin’s feminist revisioning of her Earthsea trilogy in the late story “Dragonfly” both models the humility required to make change and stages a teaching practice that welcomes the disruptive and uncomfortable questions posed by a university’s first female student.
Volume
34
DOI
10.1086/706524
Rights
© 2020 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.
Recommended Citation
Grogan, Tess, "Speculative Bill" (2020). English Language and Literature: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/eng_facpubs/35
Comments
Archived as published.