Pedagogies of Interconnectedness

Isis Nusair is a professor of women’s and gender studies and international studies at Denison University. She is a coeditor of Displaced at Home: Ethnicity and Gender among Palestinians in Israel and translator of Ever Since I Did Not Die. Barbara L. Shaw is an associate professor and chair of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at Allegheny College. She is a coeditor of Feminist and Queer Theory: An Intersectional and Transnational Reader and Introduction to Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches, and coauthor of the forthcoming book, Act Now!

“How can we hope, dream, and act for justice through education in a time of unthinkable violence on our communities, students, classrooms, and our world? Pedagogies of Interconnectedness embraces this crucial question with a courageous creativity that is defined by passion, intimacy, brilliance, and humility. The editors and contributors explore possibilities of deep co-learning and co-evolving with colleagues, friends, and undergraduate students by grappling with the tensions between resistance and collaboration and the epistemic and pedagogical practices that can move through critique toward radical transformation for truth, healing, and liberation. This rich intervention is an invaluable and inspiring resource for feminist teachers everywhere.”--Richa Nagar, author of Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms across Scholarship and Activism

• Foreword AnaLouise Keating Acknowledgments Introduction: Feminist Collaborations as Radical Interconnectedness Isis Nusair and Barbara L. Shaw Part I: Community Building and Queering Bodies of Knowledge Turning Towards: Teaching as Collaboration Misty De Berry and Ann Russo Critical Transnational Black Feminist Queer Praxis: Engendering Collaborative Pedagogy through Care and Community Building Andrea N. Baldwin Radical Feminist Transgressions in Teaching/Learning Linh U. Hua and K. Melchor Hall Beyond Critique: Building a Feministqueerpublichealth Classroom Barbara L. Shaw and Rebecca Dawson Challenging Hierarchy: Feminist Praxis and Sustainable Community Collaboration Ariella Rotramel and Kimberly Sanchez Part II: Intersecting the Transnational Teaching and Learning Intersectional and Transnational Feminisms through Digital Humanities MarÍa Claudia AndrÉ Engaged Global Pedagogy: Moving from Study Abroad to Transnational Scholar-Activism Luisa Bieri Teaching Feminist China: The Dream and the Real Meryl Altman and Sharon R. Wesoky Unpack Here: Challenging Privilege, Increasing Empathy, and Building Solidarity through Collaborative Feminist Pedagogy Danielle M. DeMuth and Ayana K. Weekley Transcultural and Transborder Pedagogies in the Feminist Classroom Montserrat PÉrez-Toribio, M. Gabriela Torres, and Charlotte Meehan Part III: Organic Collaborations, Collective Feminist Transformations Widening the Circle: Collaborative Learning Within, Between, and Beyond Classrooms Christine Keating “The Most Real Experience I’ve Had in a Course”: Disrupting Silences and Cultivating Intimacy Emily Fairchild, Leen Al-Fatafta, Sara Youngblood Gregory, and Carolyn Beer Facilitating Feminist Collaborations in Undergraduate Education: Models for Research and Internships in Gender and Women’s Studies Letizia Guglielmo, Jordan Alderman, Jeremy Hall, Brayden Milam, and Andrea Putala Weaving the Maps: Tales of Survival and Resistance Isis Nusair Contributors Index