Open AccessTeaching Note: Reflections of a Transgender Medievalist
Author(s) -
Angelique Davi
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
radical teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1941-0832
pISSN - 0191-4847
DOI - 10.5195/rt.2015.192
Subject(s) - teachable moment , surprise , identity (music) , transgender , aesthetics , sociology , history , gender studies , psychoanalysis , art , psychology , communication
I am a gender-bending lesbian who teaches Beowulf at a business university. In this piece, I reflect on an incident that reminds me I have little control over where and when my identity becomes more or less prominent for my students. Because the incident took me by surprise, I failed to capitalize on a teachable moment; this piece is my attempt at making sense of that failure