[This week, I start my 21st year at Fitchburg State! So as usual, I’ll offer some previews of the semester ahead, this time focusing on individual moments I’m looking forward to in each class. Leading up to a weekend update on my plans for season 2 of my podcast!]
It’s been
a few years since I had the chance to teach my Honors Literature Seminar on
America in the Gilded Age, so I’m very excited for every moment in this longstanding
favorite course offered for our phenomenal community of Honors Program students
(many of whom I taught in my Spring
2025 Honors First-Year Writing section). But since I’m drafting this series
in mid-June, with the Los Angeles protests unfolding as I write, I’m particularly
looking forward to beginning the class with our first long text, Helen Hunt
Jackson’s Ramona.
Besides being a multilayered historical novel that teaches really well, Jackson’s
novel reminds us that Southern California (like all of America, but in particularly
striking ways) has always been incredibly diverse, and that those who want to “return”
to a homogeneous white America are quite simply fantasists.
Next
semester preview tomorrow,
Ben
PS. What
do y’all have coming up?
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