Teaching Nabokov in a Virtual Time of Trouble
Author: Harte, Tim
Source: Reimagining Nabokov: Pedagogies for the 21st Century, Edited by Sara Karpukhin and José Vergara, Amherst College Press, DOI: 10.3998/mpub.12734225, Nov. 2022
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Description of Book: Here, eleven teachers of Vladimir Nabokov describe how and why they teach this notoriously difficult, even problematic, writer to the next generations of students. Contributors offer fresh perspectives and embrace emergent pedagogical methods, detailing how developments in technology, translation and archival studies, and new interpretative models have helped them to address urgent questions of power, authority, and identity. Practical and insightful, this volume features exciting methods through which to reimagine the literature classroom as one of shared agency between students, instructors, and the authors they read together.