Pedagogy Apr 2022

Embracing the “Workshop of Filthy Creation”

Elizabeth Effinger

Abstract

AbstractThis article describes a creative public humanities project undertaken to mark the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein that transformed the entire novel into an erasure poem made by incarcerated and nonincarcerated participants. The article traces its genesis, outlines the pedagogies that informed it, and closely reads one image from the erasure poem as a touchstone for reflecting on the lessons learned from the project. It also addresses the absence of critical discussions of failure in the discourse of the public humanities.

Journal
Pedagogy
Published
2022-04-01
DOI
10.1215/15314200-9576415
Open Access
Closed
Topics
multimodality race and writing multilingual writers

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  1. Gross et al. (2016)
    Frameworks for Failure
    Pedagogy
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