A Slippery Rock University professor’s literary scholarship is shaping how students and teachers explore the complex relationships between people and animals through literature.
Danette DiMarco, an SRU professor of languages, literatures, cultures, and writing, has contributed her literary research to a book titled “Approaches to Teaching the Works of Margaret Atwood.”
The text, published by the Modern Language Association, is a collection of essays from 20 authors regarding the teaching of the works of Margaret Atwood. DiMarco’s addition to the book is a chapter that argues for teaching students about interpretive reading through an entanglement lens, a concept that centers the relationships between humans and non-human animals. This is accomplished through analysis of Atwood’s young adult graphic novel “Angel Catbird,” offering instructors an avenue to discuss global efficacy through the resilience of both human and non-human animal life.
The volume provides not only theoretical approaches to the study of Atwood, but materials and resources that can be used from high school to graduate school levels.
More information on the book and how to acquire it can be found on the Modern Language Association’s website.
