Teaching Keats, the Shelleys, and their Circles in Troubling Times

At NASSR and BARS in 2024, the Keats-Shelley Association of America sponsored two pedagogy roundtables on teaching Keats, the Shelleys, and their circles in troubling times. The contributors to these roundtables generously agreed to share their materials, which offer an array of creative and engaging approaches to Romantic works, and we are delighted to make them available to you here. We hope you will find them inspiring and useful in your courses.


Organizer: Omar F. Miranda (University of San Francisco)

Diego Alegria Corona (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Under the lens of Octavio Paz: Modern Literature as Criticism

Valentina Aparicio (Queen Mary University of London) Teaching Romantic-era Women in the Colonies

Madeleine Callaghan (University of Sheffield) Teaching Felicia Hemans and Letitia Landon

Anthony Howe (Birmingham City University) Percy Shelley in Political and Social Contexts

Li Ou (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Teaching romantic Poetry by Plot Summary and Connecting with International Students

Stacey McDowell (University of Warwick) A Slip of the Ear


Technology Integration

Oliver Bedard (University of British Columbia) Prometheus Unbound: Shelley, Shorter, and Romantic Jazz

Mark Canuel (University of Illinois Chicago) Teaching Promethtus Unbound

Brian Bates (Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo) Sonnet Turns: Deformations & Compositions

Michele Speitz (Furman University) ‘To Autumn’ and Teaching Keats These Days

Lily Gurton-Wachter (Smith College) Teaching Frankenstein, The Mask of Anarchy, and Questions of Violence, Resistance, and Rage

Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud (University of Tennessee Knoxville) England in 1819 – America in 2024