Matthew Dischinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 6368586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Dischinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Dischinger |
| SIGNATURE | DISCHINGER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Teaching Beyond Empathy
This essay argues for a pedagogy of care, which I frame against discourses surrounding both empathy in the classroom and civility in public discourse. Many scholars and critics have identified the problems with civility, most notably that it urges polite behavior at the expense of difficult change. My essay suggests that organizing the humanities around empathy likewise proffers behavioral solutions to systemic problems. Furthermore, a pedagogy o…
States of Possibility in Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead's 2016 novel, The Underground Railroad, tells the story of an enslaved woman, Cora, attempting to escape a Georgia plantation and make her way to freedom by using the underground railroad. Rather than figuring the railroad as a network of people helping Cora move in secret, Whitehead's novel transforms the underground railroad into a real train. This essay considers the effects of the novel's speculative premise in conjunction wi…
States of Possibility in Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead's 2016 novel, The Underground Railroad, tells the story of an enslaved woman, Cora, attempting to escape a Georgia plantation and make her way to freedom by using the underground railroad. Rather than figuring the railroad as a network of people helping Cora move in secret, Whitehead's novel transforms the underground railroad into a real train. This essay considers the effects of the novel's speculative premise in conjunction wi…
States of Possibility in Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead's 2016 novel, The Underground Railroad, tells the story of an enslaved woman, Cora, attempting to escape a Georgia plantation and make her way to freedom by using the underground railroad. Rather than figuring the railroad as a network of people helping Cora move in secret, Whitehead's novel transforms the underground railroad into a real train. This essay considers the effects of the novel's speculative premise in conjunction wi…
Teaching Beyond Empathy
This essay argues for a pedagogy of care, which I frame against discourses surrounding both empathy in the classroom and civility in public discourse. Many scholars and critics have identified the problems with civility, most notably that it urges polite behavior at the expense of difficult change. My essay suggests that organizing the humanities around empathy likewise proffers behavioral solutions to systemic problems. Furthermore, a pedagogy o…
Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Critical Race Theory in Education (1 work) · Criticism (1 work) · Emancipation (1 work) · Empathy (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Fantasy (1 work) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (1 work) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (1 work)