Materials for and Approaches to Teaching Gower
The Gower Society seeks to provide resources for the teaching of John Gower and his works. Here you will find syllabi, assignments, rubrics, and other pedagogical materials. If you wich to submit teaching materials to the site, please use the email link at the top of the page.
Teaching Online for Medievalists – Video Seminar – June 2020
The following "virtual seminar" on teaching online for medievalists focuses upon some basic tactics for online pedagogy, especially course design. While it does not focus exclusively on teaching Gower, or even on teaching medieval literature/culture, it represents a...
Online Gower Manuscripts
Gower Manuscripts Hosted by the John Gower Society Additional 59495 (aka the Trentham Manuscript) In Praise of Peace and the Cinkante Balades. Wilson Library Rare Book Collection, UNC Chapel Hill Incunabula 532.5 Caxton edition of the Confessio Amantis. Complete or...
Teaching John Gower as Protest Poet
Kara McShane, Ursinus College The following materials were presented and discussed at the 2019 International Congress of Medieval Studies (ICMS), in the session "Practical Approaches to Teaching Gower," jointly sponsored by the John Gower Society and TEAMS. You are...
Gower and #MeToo
Georgiana Donavin, Westminster College The following materials were presented and discussed at the 2019 International Congress of Medieval Studies (ICMS), in the session "Practical Approaches to Teaching Gower," jointly sponsored by the John Gower Society and TEAMS....
Teaching Gower In a Medieval Survey Class: Manuscript Culture and Prologues in Gower and Chaucer
Malte Urban, Aberystwyth University The following materials were presented and discussed at the 2019 International Congress of Medieval Studies (ICMS), in the session "Practical Approaches to Teaching Gower," jointly sponsored by the John Gower Society and TEAMS. You...
Leveraging Gen Ed Student Learning Outcomes: Florent, Wife of Bath, and Dame Ragnell
Brian Gastle, Western Carolina University (WCU) The following materials were presented and discussed at the 2019 International Congress of Medieval Studies (ICMS), in the session "Practical Approaches to Teaching Gower," jointly sponsored by the John Gower Society and...