Collaborative Teaching and Creative Assignments Using Contemporary Adaptation.

Author / Editor
O'Connell, Brendan.
Colby, Alexandra.

Title
Collaborative Teaching and Creative Assignments Using Contemporary Adaptation.

Published
New Chaucer Studies: Pedgogy & Profession 4 (2023): 64-74.

Description
Advocates the use of student-generated creative writing in a course called "Surviving Trauma in the Middle Ages," focusing on reading ClT in tandem with Patience Agbabi's retelling of Chaucer'stale, "I Go Back to May 1967," from "Telling Tales" (2014). Includes teacher's (O'Connell) and student's (Colby) perspectives and their shared conclusions on the theory and practice of such an approach.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Background and General Criticism