Kate Chopin in the Classroom

The editors of this essay collection invite 250-word proposals for essays of 5,000 to 7,000 words that address an aspect of or strategy for teaching the fiction, poetry, nonfiction or life of nineteenth-century American author Kate Chopin in the contemporary classroom. What are effective strategies for high school and/or college-level students? How have you incorporated technology into your teaching of Chopin? What changes have you seen in the reception of your students over the years? For example, do they praise or condemn Edna Pontellier? What might this say about students today?

Proposals should include a title, your name and affiliation, and should be no longer than 250 words.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• Teaching Chopin in the post-covid classroom
• Teaching through technology (multimodality, infographics, podcasts, AI, etc.)
• Teaching with social media (TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, etc.)
• Chopin and race, gender, or class
• Chopin and queer theory
• Historical contexts
• Leveraging social media
• Online gaming lessons
• In-class games and group activities and other interactive activities
• Pairing Chopin with other writers
• Preferred textual versions of The Awakening and how they are used in the classroom
• Teaching Chopin in the writing classroom
• Consumerism
• Pregnancy
• Teaching in today’s political/educational climate
• Teaching Chopin in high school/college/graduate school
• Future of Chopin studies in the classroom

The editors of this collection invite submissions by September 30, 2025. Submissions should be sent to both Heather Ostman at Heather.Ostman@sunywcc.edu and Quinn Moyer at moyerq@duq.edu. Responses to submissions are expected to be delivered in 4-6 weeks with an accompanying writing and submission schedule for accepted proposals. Inquiries are welcome.