Teaching Transatlanticism

Linda K. Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature at TCU, specialises in historical media studies (poetry, periodicals, serial fiction); gender and women’s studies; and transnationality including transatlanticism. With Sarah R. Robbins she is co-editor of Teaching Transatlanticism (Edinburgh University Press, 2015) and with Julie Codell co-editor of Replication in the Long Nineteenth Century: Re-makings and Reproductions (Edinburgh University Press, 2018). Her monographs include The Victorian Serial (with Michael Lund, 1991), The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry (2010) and Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany: Cross-Cultural Freedoms and Female Opportunity (2022). Sarah Ruffing Robbins is Lorraine Sherley Professor of English at Texas Christian University. She co-directed 'The Genius of Phillis Wheatley Peters' public humanities project with Barbara McCaskill and Mona Narain and oversees the project website. Her current book projects include a monograph on public humanities in action that uses cultural memory-making around Wheatley Peters across time as a case study. She has published a dozen academic books and led numerous grant-funded public humanities projects. Her single-author books include Learning Legacies: Archive to Action through Women’s Cross-Cultural Teaching (2017); The Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe (2007); and the Choice Award-winning Managing Literacy, Mothering America (2004). With historian Ann Pullen, she co-edited the award-winning critical edition of Nellie Arnott’s Writings on Angola (2011). She co-edited Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures, 1776-1920 (EUP, 2022) with Linda Hughes and Andrew Taylor and Teaching Transatlanticism (EUP, 2015) with Hughes; she has directed a companion website for those pedagogy-focused publications, Teaching Transatlanticism. With Andrew Taylor and Christopher Hanlon, she co-edits Edinburgh University Press’s 'Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture' book series.

• Acknowledgments; Introduction (Linda K. Hughes and Sarah R. Robbins); I. Curricular Histories and Key Trends; On Not Knowing Any Better(Susan M. Griffin); Transatlantic Networks in the Nineteenth Century (Susan David Bernstein); Rewriting the Atlantic: Symbiosis, 1997-2013(Christopher Gair); II. Organising Curriculum through Transatlantic Lenses; Anthologising and Teaching Transatlantic Literature (Chris Koenig-Woodyard); “Flat Burglary”? A Course on Race, Appropriation, and Transatlantic Print Culture (Daniel Hack); Dramatising the Black Atlantic: Live Action Projects in Classrooms (Alan Rice); III. Teaching Transatlantic Figures; The Canadian Transatlantic: Susanna Moodie and Pauline Johnson (Kate Flint); Frederick Douglass, Maria Weston Chapman, and Harriet Martineau: Atlantic Abolitionist Networks and Transatlanticism’s Binaries (Marjorie Stone); ‘How did you get here? and where are you going?’: Transatlantic Literary History, Exile and Textual Traces in Herman Melville’s Israel Potter (Andrew Taylor); Americans, Abroad: Reading Portrait of A Lady in a Transatlantic Context (Sandra Zagarell); IV. Teaching Genres in Transatlantic Context; Making Anglo-American Oratory Resonate (Tom F. Wright); Genre and Nationality in Nineteenth-Century British and American Poetry (Meredith McGill, Scott Challener, Isaac Cowell, Bakary Diaby, Lauren Kimball, Michael Monescalchi, and Melissa Parrish); Teaching Transatlantic Sensations (John Cyril Barton, Kirstin Huston, Jennifer Phegley, and Jarrod Roark); Prophecy, Poetry and Democracy: Teaching through the International Lens of the Fortnightly Review (Linda Freedman); V. Envisioning Digital Transatlanticism; Transatlantic Mediations: Teaching Victorian Poetry in the New Print Media.(Alison Chapman); Digital Transatlanticism: An Experience of and Reflections on Undergraduate Research in the Humanities (Erik Simpson); Twenty-first-Century Digital Publics and Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Public Spheres (Tyler Branson); VI. Afterword; Looking Forward (Larisa S. Asaeli, Rachel Johnston, Molly Leverenz, and Marie Martinez); Index