Teaching and Learning with Transformative Texts

OAA - CUNY Innovative Teaching Academy

ATLAS (Anchored in The Liberal Arts) is a program of transformative text seminars for students at Lehman College implemented in 2021

ATLAS (Anchored in The Liberal Arts) is a program of transformative text seminars for students at Lehman College implemented in 2021. At its center is the development of a list of Transformative Texts resulting from the collective work of a number of Lehman faculty. The list reflects Lehman’s mission and demography and expands the definition of canonical texts to include authors from underrepresented groups. This workshop will offer practical insight on teaching students with these texts, as well as discuss the impact of the initiative in terms of the broader goal of decolonizing our syllabi and increasing student engagement. The presenters will share the steps to develop the list of transformative texts, practical examples of building the syllabi and assignments, as well as the impact of ATLAS on student engagement.Karin Beck received her M.A. in Slavic Literatures, Political Science, and East European History from the Freie Universität Berlin. She received her M.Phil. in Russian and Czech Literatures, and her Ph.D. in Slavic Literatures, from Columbia University. She taught at Columbia University before becoming Professor of Humanities and Director of the College at Leuphana University in Germany. Prior to coming to Lehman, she was Acting Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Kean University, NJ. Karin’s research focuses on multilingual literature.Mila Burns is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Latin American &amp; Latino Studies at Lehman College, CUNY. She is the Associate Director at the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Burns is the author of Dona Ivone Lara’s Sorriso Negro (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019; Editora Cobogó, 2021) and Nasci para Sonhar e Cantar: Dona Ivone Lara, a Mulher no Samba (Editora Record, 2009). She holds a Ph.D. in History (The Graduate Center, CUNY, 20217), a Master’s degree in Latin American Studies (Columbia University, 2012), a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 2006), and a B.A. in Journalism (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 2003). For two decades, she has worked as a journalist in Brazil and New York, having served as editor-in-chief and anchor of América News, a newscast dedicated to the Latinx community broadcast at TV Globo International. Her current book manuscript investigates the Brazilian influence on the military coup d’état in Chile, in 1973. LaRose T. Parris is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Lehman College. She received her Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center, where she was awarded the Melvin Dixon Prize for Best Dissertation in African American Studies. Her first book, Being Apart: Theoretical and Existential Resistance in Africana Literature (2015) was awarded the Nicolás Guillén Prize for Outstanding Book in Philosophical Literature by the Caribbean Philosophical Association in 2016. Currently, Parris is co-editor of Rowman &amp; Littlefield's new book series, Living Existentialism, which focuses on generative scholarship that highlights existential thought's diverse lineages in anti-colonial, Africana, feminist, and Indigenous epistemologies.***Accessibility: ASL interpretation and live CART transcription will be provided. The chat feature will be used, so if you use a screen reader, you may want to disable notifications in your Zoom accessibility settings. Information on enabling/disabling notifications for screen readers within Zoom settings is available at https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360048870451-Using-screen-reader-alerts.

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