Literature & Culture Lesson Plan: Prof. Michelle Liu's 'Literature, Language, Culture' Episode

Rebecca Taylor gives a summary of the lesson plan she developed for literature and culture studies-focused courses featuring Michelle Liu’s “Literature, Language, Culture: A Dialogue Series” epi-sode, “What Asian American Studies, Literature, and Art Teaches us During COVID-19.” Below, you will find a link to the lesson plan. We encourage you to adapt it for yourself and your students. If you are using this video in a training course for instructors, you can embed this video and attach the lesson plan, encouraging instructors to share their own adaptations. Through these lesson plans, we hope to expand the dialogue between the Department of English and educators in college and language arts classrooms.

A video and podcast series, each Department of English Literature, Language, Culture episode highlights a department member’s research and teaching, along with resources to support viewers’ learning. We have curated a video playlist of six lesson plans related to three episodes: Michelle Liu’s “What Asian American Studies, Literature, and Art Teaches us During COVID-19”, Douglas Ishii’s “Crazy Rich Asians, Critical University Studies, and Queer of Color Theory “, and Lydia Heberling’s “How Reading Multimodal Literature Can Support Indigenous Sovereignty.” For each of the three episodes, Rebecca developed two lesson plans: one adapted for composition courses and one for literature and culture courses. You can view the full playlist on our channel or by fol-lowing the playlist link:

Michelle Liu’s Episode:

Rebecca Taylor’s Literature and Cultural Studies Lesson Plan for Michelle Liu’s Episode:
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Rebecca Taylor’s Composition Lesson Plan for Michelle Liu’s Episode:
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This episode was produced by the "Literature, Language Culture" Series Editor, C. R. Grimmer and "Literature, Language Culture" Project Manager Jacob Huebsch.

About the Series:

This video is both part of the a public scholarship dialogue series from The University of Washing-ton (Seattle Campus) Department of English: "Literature, Language, Culture.” These video and podcast episodes share our innovative work in fostering intellectual inquiry, inspiring enthusiasm for literature, honing critical insight into the ethical and creative uses of the English language, pre-paring future teachers, and crafting the stories that animate our world. Whether you seek short-form discussions from experts in literature, language, teaching, and cultural studies, or are simply curious about our department’s community, you can subscribe to our channel here to make sure you stay up to date on the series:

About this episode's host, Rebecca Taylor:

Rebecca Taylor is a doctoral student, instructor, and Assistant Director of UW in the High Schools in the University of Washington’s Department of English, where she studies digital litera-cies, multimodal composition, and writing center pedagogies. She has taught academic writing for the better part of the last decade, most recently in Hong Kong, where she was a founding mem-ber of the University of Hong Kong’s Digital Literacy Lab. She has also been an English Lan-guage Fellow in Indonesia, and before that, an editor in Korea and Seattle. She has also taught at Edmonds College, which spurred her interest in scholarship centered in two-year intuitions, par-ticularly in composition and writing center studies. Broadly, her academic interests lie in the inter-section of multimodal literacy, digital literacies, writing center pedagogy, and student composition.

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