For the graduate students taking this course, we were each asked to present and lead a class discussion on one of the assigned articles during the semester.
The purpose to get the class started and engage the students in thinking about connections both with the previous readings in the course and those assigned for that week.
For the article, we must provide:
- Brief background on the author and/or what the author is responding to in their article. (quick google search or context given within the article).
- Summary of the main takeaways of the article (NOT the whole thing, 2-3 things you see as most important and why).
- Prepare 2-3 questions to lead the class in thinking about the significance of the article’s arguments: examples (what does it add to what others have said? What does it challenge? What might be problematic or resisted but others? Etc.)
- Prepare 2-3 questions that apply the article to help us think about the novel assigned with it in a specific way- how can it shape how we interpret the novel? What questions might we ask that we not otherwise?
My article and presentation
I was assigned Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s article, “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses,” as the supplemental reading in correlation with Louise Erdrich’s Tracks for the week.
Please find the article’s link, here, and my slide show for leading class discussion included below.
