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Against Split Personality Pedagogy

Teaching literary journalism reporting techniques across the journalism curriculum *Editor’s note: This article is from our archives. It originally appeared in Literary Journalism vol. 13, no. 2 (2019). If you’re reading this article, you’re likely already engaged in the teaching and study of literary journalism. But you probably also teach classes other than literary journalism,…

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Lisa A. Phillips

Exploring the Literary Journalism of the Interwar Years in France, Germany, and England

An xploration of how historical trends in narrative literary journalism in France, Germany, the U.S. and England of the interwar years reshaped the media landscape

John S. Bak

The Footprints in the Text

How do we keep an eye on process behind the product of literary journalism? I should start by acknowledging that I came to literary journalism studies per se (hereafter LJS) through something of a side-door:  from American Studies, where I had been most recently writing about police power. And aside from an unabashedly partisan stint…

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Chris Wilson

Remote Immersion: The Power of Not Going There

*Editor’s note: This article is from our archives. It originally appeared in Literary Journalism vol. 14, no. 2 (2021).  Go there. At least once a semester, I write these words on the white board in my journalism classes. The phrase is meant to get my students away from their screens and out into the world….

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Lisa A. Phillips

On Teaching Observation

Writing Exactly What You See: Often Students See More Than They Think Just after eleven in the morning one fall semester, pre-social media times, maybe 2005, when I was still teaching the two courses that produced the Ryerson Review of Journalism, a fourth-year undergraduate student, Erin, knocked on my office door. She was upset.  She…

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Bill Reynolds

Literary Journalism in a Language Class

Introducing literary journalism to non-native students of English. *Editor’s note: This article is from our archives. It originally appeared in Literary Journalism vol. 4, no. 4 (2010). The course I am teaching in the M.A. program in Information and Communication Studies at my university is called “Language and Culture of English-Speaking Peoples,” which means I…

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Isabel Meuret