Teaching with science writing in the humanities classroom / edited by Allison Dushane, Lisa Ottum, and Rosalind Powell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dushane, Allison Leigh, editor.

Ottum, Lisa, editor.

Powell, Rosalind (Lecturer in English literature), editor.

Series:

Options for teaching

Options for teaching, 1079-2562 ; 68

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science and the humanities.

Humanities--Study and teaching.

Humanities.

Technical writing--Study and teaching.

Technical writing.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

vii, 286 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2026.

Summary:

"Science writing is an expansive genre that invites collaborations between the humanities and science - not as separate endeavors but as mutually constitutive practices. Engaging with long-standing scholarly conversations in science and technology studies, literature and science, rhetoric, and science communication, the essays in this volume showcase the value of science writing as a mode of cultural analysis, as an object of close reading, and as a foundation for justice-oriented pedagogies. Readers will find practical strategies for teaching science writing in literature, writing, and interdisciplinary classrooms, from general education courses to electives to graduate courses. This volume also contains discussion of the following authors and works: Adelard of Bath, Quaestiones naturales (Natural Questions); Albertus Magnus, On Animals; Amy Matilda Cassey; Geoffrey Chaucer, Parliament of Fowls; Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Charles Darwin; Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity; Emily Dickinson; Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide; Ibn al-Nafis, Theologus Autodidactus (Self-Taught Theologian); Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass; Jamaica Kincaid, My Garden (Book); Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions; Bruno Latour; Marie de France, "Bisclavret" ("The Werewolf"); Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society; Britt Rusert, Fugitive Science; C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures; Bram Stoker, Dracula; Émile Zola, L'Assommoir"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Science Literacy and Science Writing: A Call to Humanists / Allison Dushane, Lisa Ottum, and Rosalind Powell

Part I: Historical Science Writing. Before Objectivity: Pluralizing Science with Premodern Knowledge / Aylin Malcolm

Epistolary Science: The Early Philosophical Transactions / Rosalind Powell

Less Than Nothing in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Literature, Mathematics, Realism, and Anti-Realism / Aaron Ottinger

The Vampire We Need: Bram Stoker's Dracula and the Victorian Science of the Mind / Melissa Dickson

Botany in the American Literature Classroom: Emily Dickinson and Amy Matilda Cassey / Julia Dauer

Experiments with the Science of Alcoholism / Susanna Lee

Part II: General Education and Writing Courses. Digital Science Communication in Rhetoric and Writing Courses / Laura McGrath

Science, Stories, and Academic Ecology / Marissa Kopp

Environmental Science Communication as Storytelling / Luke Rodewald

Embracing Subjectivity: Humanizing and Historicizing Science Writing in the Post-Pandemic Classroom / Scott C. Thompson

Science Writing as a General Education Linchpin / Matthew Newcomb

Part III: Science Writing for Change. Anti-Racist Science Writing: Environmental Justice and Energy Futures in the Interdisciplinary Humanities Classroom / Davy Knittle, Aneesha Manocha, and Arielle Rivera

Women's Historical Ecomedia and Environmental Advocacy / Bridgitte Barclay

Jamaica Kincaid's Anti-Colonial, Black, Cross-Species, Embodied, Feminist Onto-Epistemologies / Nicole M. Merola

Multispecies Relationships: Nonhumans and Knowledge Production in Science Writing / Nathaniel Otjen

Part IV: Courses and Assignments. The Critic Afield: Field Guides as Tools for Interdisciplinary Close Reading / John MacNeill Miller

Teaching the Invisible: Science, Labor, and Pedagogy / Xan Sarah Chacko

Teaching with the Hive: Beekeeping as a Scientific and Creative Practice / James Barilla

Sex, Gender, and the Short Story / Nancy Easterlin

Science Writing and the Art of Interpretation / Joshua DiCaglio

Taming a Two-Headed Beast: Integrating Science, Literature, and the Living World / Bryan Shawn Wang and Sandy Feinstein

Part V: Resources.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version Teaching with science writing in the humanities classroom

ISBN:

9781603297158

1603297154

9781603297165

1603297162

OCLC:

1528884930