The Teaching of Old English (A Roundtable)
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Old English Forum, Modern Language Association
Organizer Name
Matthew T. Hussey
Organizer Affiliation
Simon Fraser Univ.
Presider Name
Robin Norris
Presider Affiliation
Carleton Univ.
Paper Title 1
A Course in Beowulf and Tolkien
Presenter 1 Name
Paul Acker
Presenter 1 Affiliation
St. Louis Univ.
Paper Title 2
Teaching Old English in History of the English Language
Presenter 2 Name
Heide Estes
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Monmouth Univ.
Paper Title 3
Assignments to Enliven a Dead Language
Presenter 3 Name
Jacqueline A. Fay
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of Texas-Arlington
Paper Title 4
An Anglo-Saxon Sampler
Presenter 4 Name
Damian Fleming
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ.-Fort Wayne
Paper Title 5
Material Culture and Old English Pedagogy
Presenter 5 Name
M. Breann Leake
Presenter 5 Affiliation
Univ. of Connecticut
Paper Title 6
Reading Like Anglo-Saxons
Presenter 6 Name
Erica Weaver
Presenter 6 Affiliation
Harvard Univ.
Start Date
11-5-2017 7:30 PM
Session Location
Bernhard 210
Description
The Teaching of Old English
At the 2016 International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, the MLA Old English Forum sponsored a session on the “Business of Old English.” One aspect of that business was the state of teaching Old English at universities and colleges across the United States, which gave a big picture survey of the current numbers of institutions and people teaching Old English. Building on that discussion, for the 2017 Kalamazoo Congress, the MLA Old English forum is sponsoring a roundtable that takes up the teaching of Old English with a much more detailed and hands-on approach.
Across various sizes and types of institutions, with students having diverse skills and training, in both formal and informal course rubrics, Old English is being taught, and taught well. In this roundtable, panelists will take up concrete issues in teaching Old English, such as texts and their formats, structure of syllabuses, in-class exercises, term projects, recruitment, and more. The presentations focus on the immediate work of teaching the language to our students. After the short presentations by the panel, we seek an open discussion of what does and does not work in class and how to make our teaching of Old English better, stronger, and more meaningful.
Matthew T. Hussey
The Teaching of Old English (A Roundtable)
Bernhard 210
The Teaching of Old English
At the 2016 International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, the MLA Old English Forum sponsored a session on the “Business of Old English.” One aspect of that business was the state of teaching Old English at universities and colleges across the United States, which gave a big picture survey of the current numbers of institutions and people teaching Old English. Building on that discussion, for the 2017 Kalamazoo Congress, the MLA Old English forum is sponsoring a roundtable that takes up the teaching of Old English with a much more detailed and hands-on approach.
Across various sizes and types of institutions, with students having diverse skills and training, in both formal and informal course rubrics, Old English is being taught, and taught well. In this roundtable, panelists will take up concrete issues in teaching Old English, such as texts and their formats, structure of syllabuses, in-class exercises, term projects, recruitment, and more. The presentations focus on the immediate work of teaching the language to our students. After the short presentations by the panel, we seek an open discussion of what does and does not work in class and how to make our teaching of Old English better, stronger, and more meaningful.
Matthew T. Hussey