Teaching Narrative

Richard Jacobs has taught narrative in secondary, tertiary and higher education. He is Principal Lecturer in Literature at the University of Brighton, UK where he has received teaching awards. His publications include A Beginner’s Guide to Critical Reading: an Anthology of Literary Texts, chapters in Reassessing the Twentieth Century Canon (Palgrave) and The Twentieth Century, editions of Vile Bodies and The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, materials for teachers on post-16 literature, and several articles and reviews.

• 1. Introduction; Richard Jacobs.- 2. Time, Narrative and Culture; Mark Currie.- 3. Talking Race and Narrative with Undergraduate Students; Sue J. Kim.- 4. The Ethics of Teaching Tragedy; Sean McEvoy.- 5. Teaching Comic Narrative; Rachel Trousdale.- 6. Teaching Crime Narratives: Historicizing Genre and the Politics of Form; Will Norman.- 7.Teaching Historical Fiction: Hilary Mantel and the Protestant Reformation; Mark Eaton.- 8.The Way They Lived Then: Using Wikis to Teach Victorian Novels; Ellen Rosenman.- 9. Digital Humanities in the Teaching of Narrative; Suzanne Keen.- 10.The Work of Narrative in the Age of Digital Interaction: Revolutions in Practice and Pedagogy; Alec Charles.- 11. Empowering Students as Researchers: Autoethnographic Approaches to Teaching and Learning Creative Writing; Jess Moriarty.- 12. Narrative and Narratives: Designing and Delivering a First-year Undergraduate Narrative Module; Richard Jacobs.

“This timely volume addresses the many ways in which recent thinking has informed the teaching of narrative in university classrooms in the UK and the USA. …The result is a volume that explores the pleasurable challenges of working with students to help them appreciate and assess the power that narrative exerts, to become reflective critics of its inner workings as well as exponents of narrative themselves.” (Spotlight, wordtrade.com, Issue. 27, July, 2018)