The Teaching Literature Initiative is an effort to increase support for graduate students who are teaching or planning to teach literature. Our larger goal is to shift our department's culture toward dialogue regarding the value and challenges of teaching. While such discussions occur routinely in composition programs (including our own), they too easily go missing in literature programs (again, unfortunately, including our own).
Our online resources include sample syllabi, assignments, and exams that our colleagues have developed for the courses we are eligible to teach; the official descriptions and guidelines for teaching these courses; detailed descriptions of relevant articles and books; and links to UNC and external resources.
Every listed text is easily available to UNC students; every article can be accessed in full-text through the E-Journal Finder on the library's web page, and every book is available at Davis.
A cry for help: please let us know when you notice gaps and oversights in these materials-great web sites, new articles, etc. We also appreciate the submission of especially successful teaching materials, and of materials for the new courses introduced by curricular revision!
We host several teaching-centered meetings and events each semester. If you find any of our online materials intriguing, please consider attending-no matter what stage you've reached in the program or what you're teaching at the moment. We would love to see you there or to hear from you personally if you have any unmet needs or suggestions.
