Teaching Twelfth Night and Queering the Canon in Michigan English Language Arts Classrooms

Authors

Anne D. Lippert, Northern Michigan UniversityFollow

Author Biographies

Anne Lippert lives in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. They are interested in how educators can better support students in marginalized communities, and in how educators in marginalized communities can better support one another.

Abstract

Recent legislation across the country has advocated for the complete disregard of queer topics and identities within public school classrooms. Within this essay, I lay out the issues that stem from ignoring marginalized identities in the ELA classroom, specifically queer identities, and offer an example of a text (Shakespeare's Twelfth Night) that can be used to incorporate discussion of queer identity into the curriculum.

Recommended Citation

Lippert, Anne D. (2023) "Teaching Twelfth Night and Queering the Canon in Michigan English Language Arts Classrooms," Language Arts Journal of Michigan: Vol. 38: Iss. 1, Article 8.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.9707/2168-149X.2349

Publication Date

2023