Doing More with More: Making the Most of THE HISTORY OF ART: A GLOBAL VIEW

Lorraine Affourtit is Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture and Affiliate Faculty in the Gender, Women’s Studies, and Sexuality Studies program at Appalachian State University. Globalizing and Decolonizing Art History Surveys  Art history survey courses, often offered in two parts spanning ancient to contemporary art, are the backbone of almost any college-level program in art history at …

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An Interdisciplinary Way of Teaching Oceanography: An Interview with Gillian Stewart 

Author Gillian Stewart is passionate about drawing connections across these  ocean disciplines, to the students’ lives, and to climate change. In this interview with the Norton Geology team, she explores how this new textbook came to be and how she knows it’s one that students will actually read.

Using Public Speaking as a Social Justice Tool 

I help my students learn how to challenge the dominant narratives around social issues; how to research effectively to educate, inform, and persuade; and how to tell a great story to capture and engage the audience. This is why I use W. W. Norton’s Contemporary Public Speaking by Pat Gehrke and Megan Foley in my public speaking classes.

Rolling Forward: How THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE Continues to Shape the Classroom

Looking back at the First Edition of The Norton Anthology of African American Literature reminds me that each generation of scholars of African American literature before ours had to reinvent the wheel every time they tried to do research or sat down to plan a class. English literature has been well documented for decades. A student did not want for bibliographies of British scholarship or dictionaries of Shakespearean language, or collections of Elizabethan poetry and edited editions of medieval lyrics. By contrast, there were few comparable volumes for African American literature, and certainly no single book brought together its most important and representative works so that instructors could teach with one authoritative text.