Teaching Popular Culture in the Humanities Classroom

Ashley M. Archiopoli is associate professor of communication studies at the University of Houston-Downtown.Katherine Hampsten is professor of communication studies at St. Mary’s University.Elizabeth Fish Hatfield is associate professor of communication studies at the University of Houston – Downtown.

• Part I: Engaging Students Chapter 1Leveraging Internet Culture for Community Building in Online ClassroomsAshley M. ArchiopoliChapter 2Create a Comic Book Character: Showcasing Identity, Representation, and DEI Through Critical and Creative SkillsAnthony RamirezChapter 3Teaching Person-Environment Fit with the Movie SoulSteven Rodriguez Jr. Part II: Analysis and ApplicationsChapter 4Exploring and Expanding Moral Philosophy through Science FictionJames M. OkapalChapter 5Making Meaning in a Shifting World: Teaching Media Literacy through Everything Everywhere All At OnceMelissa Eriko PoulsenChapter 6The Numbers Don’t Lie – or Do They? An Exercise in Decoding a Historical FilmPeter BurkholderPart III: Narrative and StorytellingChapter 7Teaching Narrative Performance Theory with Disney’s EncantoElizabeth Fish HatfieldChapter 8The Many Stories of Hugh Glass: From the Frontier to the Big Screen and Leonardo DiCaprio’s First OscarDevan Charles LindeyChapter 9Yesterday: A Beatles Oral History ProjectJohn F. LyonsPart IV: Exploring IdentityChapter 10Teaching Black Lives Matter Through Hip-HopNick J. SciulloChapter 11Exploring Difficult History Lessons, Identity Construction, the Artistic Expansion of SitcomStorytelling Tools in the Black-ish Episode, JuneteenthSabrina VoelzChapter 12Teaching Competent Cross-Cultural Communication with Abbott ElementaryKatherine Hampsten