John Staunton

Professor of English Education and American Literature; Coordinator of English Education Programs

English Language and Literature; Women's and Gender Studies

603B Pray-Harrold

734.487.0135

[email protected]

Office Hours

WINTER 2020 Office Hours

POST MARCH 11: BY email, video, or phone conference only

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Education

Ph.D., Fordham University, English and American Literature
Ed.S., Indiana University, Language Education/English Education
B.A. , University of Notre Dame, English and Philosophy

Interests and Expertise

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I am Professor of English Education and American Literature. I am also a faculty member in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies. I was the 2017 recipient of the Ronald W. Collins Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching at Eastern Michigan University.

My scholarly and teaching interests frequently overlap, focusing on English teacher education, literature pedagogy, local literature, American women writers, and multi-modalities in literacy education.

Currently, I serve as the coordinator of English Education programs. A past co-director of the National Writing Project site at Eastern Michigan (EMWP), I have been involved with local and national teacher research networks for close to 20 years, most recently to support site-based teacher research and teacher inquiry groups in southeast Michigan.

I am co-editor of the book Teaching the Literature Survey Course, published by WVU Press, which has been nominated for the 2019 Teaching Literature Book Award.

For information about talks and presentations: WVU Press Authors Gallery: Meet the Experts

Courses

FALL 2020 [Go to Registrar to Enroll]

ENGL 409W/509 Teaching English for Secondary W 5:30-8:10 PM
LITR 443/WGST 433 Women in Literature MW 11:00-12:15 [Academic Service Learning Course]

WINTER 2020

ENGL 409W/509 Teaching English for Secondary W 5:30-8:10 PM
ENGL 518 Topics in English/Education: Where Are We Now? Local/Global Intersections (Online)

Fall 2019

LITR 309W Development of American Literature — MW 2-3:15 p.m. (CRN 16358)
WRTG 121

Graduate Courses

ENGL 518 Topics in English Education
ENGL 530 Issues in English Studies for Teachers
LITR 523 American Realism and Naturalism
LITR/WGST 592 19th Century American Women Writers
LITR 569 American Renaissance
LITR 585 Literature for Teachers
Reading Dangerously: Teaching Controversial Literature
World Literature for Teachers
Visualizing Pedagogies: Art and Literature
Pedagogical and Aesthetic Designs for Art and Literature
Teaching Local Literatures in a Global Age: Regions of Pedagogical Practice

Undergraduate Courses

LITR 100 Worlds on the Page: Introduction to Literature
LITR 101 Imaginary Worlds: Introduction to Fiction
LITR 103 All the World's a Stage: Introduction to Drama
UNIV 179L3 Exploring the University Experience
WRTG 121 Composition II: Researching the Public Experience
LITR 200 Literary Studies for Literature Lovers
LITR 200 Reading Local Literature in a Global Age (First Year Seminar/G)
ENGL 300W Writing about Literature
LITR 309 Development of American Literature
ENGL 408W Writing for Secondary Teachers
ENGL 409 Teaching English in the Secondary Schools
LITR/WGST 443 Women in Literature
LITR 479 Forging/Mastering Pedagogies for Teaching Art and Literature

Publications and Presentations

“Quick, Dead, and Widowed: Failed Reading of ‘Unwholesome Intellectual Sweets’ and the Importance of Knowing Whose Story You’re In.” In Heather Ostman, ed. The New View from Cane River: Critical Essays on Kate Chopin's At Fault." (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, FORTHCOMING).
Teaching the Literature Survey Course: New Approaches for College Faculty. Co-edited with James M. Lang (Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, Assumption College) and Gwynn Dujardin (Queens University, Canada). West Virginia University Press, 2018. Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Series.
"Re-Visioning the American Literature Survey for Teachers and Other Wide-Awake Humans." In Gwynn Dujardin, James M. Lang and John A. Staunton, eds. Teaching the Literature Survey Course: New Approaches for College Faculty. Morgantown: West Virginia UP, 2018.
Deranging English/Education: Teacher Inquiry, Literary Studies, and Hybrid Visions of "English" for 21st Century Schools. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2008.
"'Making death less terrible': Alice Cary's Regionalist Aesthetics in Clovernook." In Dennis Berthold and Lingui Yang, eds. Alice Cary Studies. A Dual language English/Chinese critical edition and Chinese translation of Alice Cary's Clovernook: Or, Recollections of Our Neighborhood in the West [1852, 1853]. Shanghai, 2012.
"A Miracle of Catfish and the Recursions of Art." In Jean W. Cash and Keith Perry, eds. Larry Brown and the Blue-Collar South. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2008.
" 'I was messed up from the start': The Shape of Critical Literacy in Student Writing Histories." Journal of Teaching Writing. 24.2 (2008): 45–78. [Published 2009]
"Shadowing Grace in the 'Post-Southern' South: 'A Roadside Resurrection' and Larry Brown's Narratives of Witness," Religion & Literature 33.2 (Spring 2001): 43–74.
"Kate Chopin's 'One Story': Casting a Shadowy Glance on the Ethics of Regionalism," Studies in American Fiction 28.2 (Fall 2000): 203–34. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism 68 (2004): 248–63.