[This week marks the beginning of a new semester, and so as always I wanted to preview classes I’m teaching, this time through individual authors and texts I’m excited to be including on this syllabi. Leading up to a special weekend update on my own newest book project!]
The last
time I got to teach this very unique and fun course I had (finally) diversified
the syllabus, adding Kai Ashante Wilson’s A Sorcerer of the Wildeeps (2015). But as you can see from that hyperlinked
preview post, that semester turned out to be none other than Spring 2020, and
by the time we were supposed to be reading and discussing Wilson’s novel, we
were in that state of virtual
teaching and triage that comprised the entire second half of that semester.
We did what we could, but it was far from what it could and presumably would
have been in a more regular series of class conversations. But I remain
undeterred in my goal of continued such diversification, and for this semester’s
section of the course I’m very excited to have the chance both to teach and to
read for the first time Nnedi Okorafor’s Akata
Witch (2011). I’ve heard nothing but great things about Okarafor’s book
(and its two sequels), and can’t wait to see
what my students think of it—hopefully (he wrote knocking on every bit of wood
he could find) in a far more “normal” class setting this time around.
Next
Spring preview tomorrow,
Ben
PS. What do
you think? Spring semester authors, texts, classes, or other work to share?
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