Getting Started With Spenser

International Spenser Society

A workshop on developing inclusive teaching resources for reading Spenser in terms of race, gender, class, ecocriticism, and more.

What’s the best way to get started with Spenser? The sheer bulk and complexity of his oeuvre have always made this question inescapable, but they have taken on a particular urgency in the current moment. The question of how Spenser can be taught today is a large and abstract one: what does it mean to engage with Spenser in this political and cultural context? Does the peculiar capaciousness of his writing still make him a valuable resource for confronting and reflecting upon racism, misogyny, or ecological crisis? But these questions are, in the classroom, eminently practical and specific: Which parts of which texts do we choose in pursuit of these questions, and which topics and strategies does a reader need at the outset?The International Spenser Society is pleased to announce a virtual roundtable which will engage these questions. In this online workshop, scholars at different career stages will explore together the challenges and possibilities of teaching and learning about Spenser’s work, and, crucially, consider how the resources and contradictions of Spenser’s writings can interrogate the political and pedagogical conditions that shape our contemporary classroom.The workshop will serve as a first step towards developing an online pedagogical resource: short recordings by Spenserians from across the globe, offering practical ways into some of the topics that teachers of Spenser might wish to address, including Spenser and gender, Spenser and race, Spenser and class, Spenser and disability. These short recordings might then be played in a class in order to begin and orientate a discussion of that topic. As a part of the workshop, participants will discuss preliminary ideas for such recordings, in order to develop a sense of how they might work most effectively.

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