Learning from the Legacies of Phillis Wheatley Peters: A Collaborative Pedagogical Public Humanities Project

Authors

Sandra Zagarell, Oberlin CollegeFollow

Author Biography

Sandra Zagarell, Donald Longman Professor of English emerita, taught American literature and book studies at Oberlin College in the US. Her scholarship centers on American literature. She conducts poetry discussions for people in addiction recovery program and was lead humanities scholar for the public humanities project for teachers on “Learning from the Legacies of Phillis Wheatley Peters.”

Abstract

“’Learning from the Legacies of Phillis Wheatley Peters’: A Collaborative Pedagogical Public Humanities Project” is an account of a Spring, 2024 Zoom and web-based public humanities project for primary, secondary and post-secondary teachers interested in learning more about African-born American poet Phillis Wheatley Peters (c.1746-1784) and developing writing-based curricular materials about her. Foregrounding the levels of pedagogy the project involved, the essay describes leaders’ planning processes and our sessions with teacher-participants and provides links to the materials the teachers prepared. The instructional approaches the essay details can be adapted by educators working in a wide variety of classroom settings.

Keywords

Phillis Wheatley Peters, pedagogy, collaboration, web-based materials, humanities

Recommended Citation

Zagarell, Sandra (2025) "Learning from the Legacies of Phillis Wheatley Peters: A Collaborative Pedagogical Public Humanities Project," ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830: Vol.15: Iss.2, Article 16.
http://doi.org/10.5038/2157-7129.15.2.1460
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/iss2/16