tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post6519380648175423606..comments2024-03-26T01:10:13.720+00:00Comments on Teach Me Tonight: Call for Papers: Teaching Tainted LitE. M. Selingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426524354823232002noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-25941004755160879042014-04-06T10:05:24.645+01:002014-04-06T10:05:24.645+01:00No, you're right that it's rare for people...No, you're right that it's rare for people to teach romance novels at universities. But there are some (and I've listed the ones I know of and which have an internet presence <a href="http://teachmetonight.blogspot.co.uk/p/teaching-popular-romance.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>). Most of those are in the US but there was also one course taught in a German university by a postgrad and I'm hoping she'll get something published about it.Laura Vivancohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00906661869372622821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-40689800485781360442014-04-06T07:21:46.222+01:002014-04-06T07:21:46.222+01:00Thank you for your answer. I was thinking specific...Thank you for your answer. I was thinking specifically about romance novels. You're right about popular culture, generally speaking. But whereas I can imagine pop music or the movies or even comics analyzed in universities, I have my doubts if the same happens with romance novels. At least in Europe or Continental Europe, to be more accurate.Bonahttp://romanticanorosa.blogspot.com.es/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-41011563135187734682014-04-05T15:08:22.798+01:002014-04-05T15:08:22.798+01:00Good questions, Bona, and since I'm not Janet ...Good questions, Bona, and since I'm not Janet Casey, I'm not sure what she was thinking of.<br /><br />I did recently read a thesis about college composition classes in the US (I've never come across this kind of class in the UK, but my experience of UK universities isn't huge) <a href="http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/99818/slmoody_1.pdf?sequence=1" rel="nofollow">by Stephanie Moody</a>, who said that:<br /><br /><i>The use of popular culture within composition is neither new nor exceptional. In “The History of Rhetoric and Composition as Cultural Studies,” Pauline Uchmanowicz notes that as early as 1952, composition scholars were arguing for the study of mass media and the use of audio-visual aids in writing classrooms<br />(Campbell). By 1959, Ken Macrorie’s </i>The Perceptive Writer, Reader, and Speaker<i> had introduced popular culture to the textbook market, and by the late 1960s, popular music, television, books, film, and magazines were firmly entrenched in<br />writing curricula.</i><br /><br />In <a href="http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/fall_2002/browne.htm" rel="nofollow">an interview with <i>Americana</i></a> Ray Browne said over ten years ago that "The study of popular culture is so widespread throughout academia that one can get a Ph.D. in popular culture studies in various other disciplines."Laura Vivancohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00906661869372622821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-66438723281408257042014-04-05T11:47:08.992+01:002014-04-05T11:47:08.992+01:00There's a sentence in this post that I don'...There's a sentence in this post that I don't quite understand. '...that popular fiction has secured a solid position in higher education classrooms'.<br />I'm not sure if that's universally true. I mean, where has this phenomenon happened? In all US universities, in a handful of them? Is the situation the same in Europe? Or in Australia or Asian universities. I'd like to know what academic environment is the articled referred to. Bonahttp://romanticanorosa.blogspot.com.es/noreply@blogger.com