Transforming British Literature Pedagogy

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Abstract: Although teaching literature in the American university has been informed in recent years by ideas involving critical race studies, postcolonial theory, gender studies, and ecocriticism, one part of the curriculum that has remained relatively unchanged is the British literature survey course. This paper explores how such surveys can be transformed so that experiences of race—and particularly Blackness—are included, with particular attention paid to the HBCU institutional context.