By Candace Barrington
We are pleased to announce the Spring 2021 issue of the Open Access journal: New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession.
This issue, "#MeToo, Medieval Literature, and Trauma-Informed Pedagogy," builds on two important groups of scholarship. First, it continues the important work of feminist scholars who have helped us recognize overlooked or sugarcoated sexual and gender violence present in many medieval texts taught in college and university classes. Second, it extends recent scholarship on pedagogical best practices for confronting these issues with a generation of students attuned to identifying and condemning sexual harassment and assault. Because many of our students—whatever their gender identification—have histories with many kinds of sexual harm, articles by Carissa M. Harris, Sarah Powrie, and Sara Torres and Rebecca McNamara offer thoughtful, trauma-informed pedagogical approaches to aid us as we approach these difficult texts. Our fourth article, by Holly A. Crocker, illuminates the deep-rooted systems that feed women’s vulnerability and work to silence even the strongest among us.
You'll find the new issue at https://escholarship.org/uc/ncs_pedagogyandprofession. While you're there, check out the Call for Papers tab and the invitation to submit a short contribution to the Pandemic Collection.