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Teaching Point of View: The Pedagogy of Perspective

122AB, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
Thursday, March 24, 2022
9:00 am to 10:15 am

 

Writing students contend with reverberating questions about point of view, especially around issues of representation and narrative ownership. Why first person versus third person? Why does one work call for epic omniscience and another present tense? What happens when we give voice to those who are unlike us? This panel asks professors of creative writing how they approach the pedagogy of perspective. What practices best support our students’ critical thinking and imaginative abilities?



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: Teaching_Point_of_View_The_Pedagogy_of_Perspective.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Sarah Braunstein is the author of The Sweet Relief of Missing Children. Her fiction and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Playboy, Ploughshares, AGNI, Harvard Review, and the Sun. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Colby College in Maine.

Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of two novels: Wench and Balm. Her forthcoming novel Take My Hand will be published by Berkley/Penguin Random House. She is an associate professor in the MFA program at American University in Washington, DC.

Mark Mayer is the author of Aerialists (Bloomsbury), shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. His stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, Kenyon Review, Guernica, and The Iowa Review. He is assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Memphis.

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