Teaching with Tension

Drawing together personal reflection, pedagogical strategies, and critical theory, this book offers concrete examinations to foster student learning. The essays are organized into three thematic sections: “Teaching in Times and Places of Struggle”, “Teaching in the Neoliberal University” and “Teaching How to Read Race and (Counter)Narratives”.

Philathia Bolton is an assistant professor of English at the University of Akron.

Cassander L. Smith is an associate professor of English at the University of Alabama and the author of Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World .

Lee Bebout is an associate professor of English at Arizona State University and the author of Mythohistorical Interventions: The Chicano Movement and Its Legacies and Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the U.S. Racial Imagination in Brown and White .