Teaching Representations of the First World War

Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching First World War literature in the college classroom, including considerations of gender, queerness, modernism, pacifism, imperialism, code-switching, children's books, graphic novels, community-based learning, the Middle East, South Asia, and the influenza pandemic. Contains information on reference works and online resources. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses.

Debra Rae Cohen, associate professor of English at the University of South Carolina, is the author of Remapping the Home Front: Locating Citizenship in British Women's Great War Fiction (2002) and the coeditor of Broadcasting Modernism (2009). She coedits the journal Modernism/modernity. Douglas Higbee, associate professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Aiken, is the editor of Military Culture and Education (2010), the coeditor of Hunting from the Ivory Tower: Essays by Academics Who Hunt (forthcoming), the author of articles on twentieth-century soldier poetry and the British veterans' movement, and the coauthor of In Their Own Words: Augusta and Aiken Veterans Remember World War II (forthcoming).