Cartooning as a Creative Classroom Response: Picturing Emily Dickinson and Her Poetry

Authors

  • Mary Anne Myers Adjunct, Bard Prison Initiative (Fall 2015); Assistant Professor, United States Military Academy, West Point, 2013-15

Keywords:

Emily Dickinson, cartoons, comics

Abstract

This essay describes an exercise that used cartooning to engage first-year cadets at the United States Military Academy (West Point) with the poetry of Emily Dickinson. It shows how the exercise fit into the overall curriculum and supported course objectives.

Author Biography

Mary Anne Myers, Adjunct, Bard Prison Initiative (Fall 2015); Assistant Professor, United States Military Academy, West Point, 2013-15

Mary Anne Myers, Ph.D., served a two-year contract as Assistant Professor of English at West Point from 2013-15. She is currently a faculty member with the Bard Prison Initiative, teaching incarcerated men and women. Her essays on British Romanticism have been published in Studies in Romanticism and The Keats-Shelley Journal. Contact her at maryannemyers22@gmail.com.

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Published

2016-07-06

Issue

Vol. 45 No. 1 (2016): Winter/Spring 2016

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