Teaching with the Global Feminisms Project: Teaching, Pedagogy, and Uses of the Archive in the Context of the Classroom

In this episode, Dr. Janaya Lasker-Ferretti, who currently serves as coordinator of second-year Italian courses in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, discusses her application of the Italy country site interviews in Italian language learning courses.

Music credit: Banjo Arba Minch Garden by Cooper Moore. Creative Commons. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Cooper-Moore/A_Retrospective_1990-2010/h_Banjo_Arba_Minch_Garden

These episodes of “Contextualizing Feminist Voices: Teaching with the Global Feminisms Project” focus on how individual teachers have used the materials in their courses. In each episode, you will hear strategies for using the materials that different faculty tried, as well as their thoughts about what those strategies allowed them to accomplish in their teaching. Though each podcast is based on material for a particular course, we think they have ready applicability to courses on different topics

GFP originated in 2002 to create an archive of oral histories from women scholars and activists from different countries around the world. Check out https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/globalfeminisms/ to access the interviews and additional resources on the country sites, including lesson plans and sample syllabi. The GFP is based at the Department of Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan