I am currently working on two projects: an ongoing study of caucusing in the classroom and a monograph on soldiers and martyrs in Shakespeare’s plays.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Students\u2019 self-defined identities \u2013 around race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, religion, disability, not to mention family and community obligations \u2013 are not always visible or definitive in ways that we might expect. How do we meet students where they are, while designing learning environments that help them support each other\u2019s development? By way of partially answering this question, Marissa Greenberg<\/a> and I propose a social justice pedagogy that we call alliance-based caucusing. Alliance-based caucusing does not make pedagogy personal, but it acknowledges the plurality of our students\u2019 experiences\u00a0as they intersect with our own. <\/p>\n \u201cShakespeare and the Politics of Martyrdom\u201d uses Foucault’s work on biopower to draw out surprising connections between the soldier and the martyr in early modern English drama. By staging moments in which soldiers die extraordinarily brutal deaths off the battlefield rather than on it, Shakespeare’s plays use the imagery of Christian martyrdom to highlight the otherwise anonymous sacrifices made by English infantrymen. “Sometimes,” Foucault observes, “what [the individual] has to do for the state is to live, to work, to produce, to consume, and sometimes what he has to do is to die.” The plays examined in this study dramatize the thin line between these two forms of political utility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am currently working on two projects: an ongoing study of caucusing in the classroom and a monograph on soldiers and martyrs in Shakespeare’s plays.\u00a0 Students\u2019 self-defined identities \u2013 around race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, religion, disability, not to mention… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2777,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/elizabethwilliamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/elizabethwilliamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/elizabethwilliamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/elizabethwilliamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/elizabethwilliamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/elizabethwilliamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/elizabethwilliamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}