Associate Professor of English Eric G. Lorentzen published an article in Dickens Studies Annual on Dickens and education entitled “This Schoolroom is a Nation: Subverting the Catechistic Method in Dickens.”The catechistic method was a popular form of the rote memorization pedagogy which dominated Victorian schools, and sought to keep at-risk learners content with their marginalized social […]
Eric Lorentzen, Associate Professor of English, gave a talk in Raleigh, North Carolina, at this year’s Victorians Institute Conference, which was thematized around ideas of Victorian STEM/STEAM. His paper on Dickens was titled “Hard Times, Critical Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: STEM as the New Utilitarianism.”
Eric Lorentzen, associate professor of English, presented a talk at this year’s Victorians Institute conference, held in Charlotte, Oct. 23-25. The theme of the 43rd annual conference was “The Mysteries at Our Own Doors,” and his talk was entitled “‘The Narrative of the Tombstone’: Teaching English 251S — British Victorian Detective and Sensation Novel.” In this […]
Eric Lorentzen, associate professor of English, gave a pedagogical talk entitled “The Victorian Psychological Novel and Memory: Wordsworthian Echoes, Freudian Anticipations” at the Northeastern Modern Language Association Conference in Harrisburg, Pa. on April 4. He also chaired the panel “Literary Genealogies: British Romantic Poetry and Victorian Novels.”
Eric Lorentzen, associate professor of English, gave a talk entitled “Teaching Dickens and Cultural Studies in the 21st Century” at Converse College on Nov. 15, as part of a conference on scholarship, pedagogy, and the intersections of popular culture.