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Faculty Publication: Assistant Professor of Russian José Vergara

November 23, 2022

Good Readers, Good Writers: Collaborative Student Annotations for Invitation to a Beheading

Author: Vergara, José

Source: Reimagining Nabokov: Pedagogies for the 21st Century, Edited by Sara Karpukhin and José Vergara, Amherst College Press, DOI: 10.3998/mpub.12734225, Nov. 2022 

Type of Publication: Book Chapter and Edited Volume

Description of Book: Here, eleven teachers of Vladimir Nabokov describe how and why they teach this notoriously difficult, even problematic, writer to the next generations of students. Contributors offer fresh perspectives and embrace emergent pedagogical methods, detailing how developments in technology, translation and archival studies, and new interpretative models have helped them to address urgent questions of power, authority, and identity. Practical and insightful, this volume features exciting methods through which to reimagine the literature classroom as one of shared agency between students, instructors, and the authors they read together.

José Vergara was a co-editor and contributed a chapter to the book.

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