Reading While Walking

Katharine Anne Keenan,Darwin Tsen

doi:10.22582/ta.v9i2.540

Abstract

This reflection focuses on how the opportunity to co-teach across disciplines illuminates the interconnections between literary criticism and ethnographic methodology. We discuss the value of walking as a way of knowing and of creative genres as modes of representation. Through the class’s final project, a multimedia map of Kenosha, we see the benefits of a combined literary and ethnographic approach in our students’ rigorously observed and sensitively rendered presentations.

Highlights

With the students piled back on the city bus for their ride back to campus, I released a satisfied sigh
Through the city’s narrative of post-industrial reinvention and eight-cylinder thrust toward creative and leisure economies we examine the significance of urban place-making
Having designed and taught the course twice before, I have typically focused on how to study people and place. This year, I am joined by a new coteacher, Dr Darwin Tsen, a colleague in Modern Languages and Asian Studies

Summary

Introduction

With the students piled back on the city bus for their ride back to campus, I released a satisfied sigh. Through the class’s final project, a multimedia map of Kenosha, we see the benefits of a combined literary and ethnographic approach in our students’ rigorously observed and sensitively rendered presentations.

Results

Conclusion