“My Creature Is Me”: Privileging a Multimodal Herstory as Counternarrative

As an English teacher educator (Annmarie) and preservice English language arts (ELA) teacher (Micala) working together across multiple courses, we share a mutual love for Judges retelling of Mary Shelleys early life. In this article, we invite teachers to adopt Marys Monster as a stand-alone text or...

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Published inEnglish journal Vol. 111; no. 1; pp. 40 - 47
Main Authors Garcia Sheahan, Annmarie, Nitz, Micala
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Urbana National Council of Teachers of English 01.09.2021
EditionHigh school edition
Subjects
British & Irish literature
Classrooms
Curricula
English literature
Novels
Racism
Self expression
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851)
Students
Teacher Educators
Teachers
Teaching
Teaching Methods
Undergraduate Students
Writing
Young adults
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Summary:As an English teacher educator (Annmarie) and preservice English language arts (ELA) teacher (Micala) working together across multiple courses, we share a mutual love for Judges retelling of Mary Shelleys early life. In this article, we invite teachers to adopt Marys Monster as a stand-alone text or alongside Shelleys Frankenstein. We provide an overview of Judges work, narrated conversations surrounding its literary merit as a classroom text, and suggested activities for a unit plan centered on Judges multimodal novel in verse. Overall, our article will (1) center Marys Monster as a primary multimodal text about creation and herstory, (2) provide ELA teachers with concrete ways to teach the novel, and (3) engage students in their role as creators through multimodal compositions.
ISSN:0013-8274
2161-8895
DOI:10.58680/ej202131390