Teaching with Science Writing in the Humanities Classroom (Hardcover)

Hardcover. Options for teaching science writing in humanities courses Science writing is an expansive genre that invites collaborations between the humanities and sciencenot as separate endeavors but as mutually constitutive practices. Engaging with long-standing scholarly conversations in science and technology studies, literature and science, rhetoric, and science communication, the essays in this volume showcase the value of science writing as a mode of cultural analysis, as an object of close reading, and as a foundation for justice-oriented pedagogies. Readers will find practical strategies for teaching science writing in literature, writing, and interdisciplinary classrooms, from general education courses to electives to graduate courses. This volume also contains discussion of the following authors and works: Adelard of Bath, Quaestiones naturales (Natural Questions); Albertus Magnus, On Animals; Amy Matilda Cassey; Geoffrey Chaucer, Parliament of Fowls; Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Charles Darwin; Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity; Emily Dickinson; Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide; Ibn al-Nafis, Theologus Autodidactus (Self-Taught Theologian); Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass; Jamaica Kincaid, My Garden (Book); Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions; Bruno Latour; Marie de France, "Bisclavret" ("The Werewolf"); Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society; Britt Rusert, Fugitive Science; C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures; Bram Stoker, Dracula; Emile Zola, L'Assommoir. Engaging the interplay between science and humanities, the essays examine science writing as a form of cultural critique and justice-oriented pedagogy. They provide practical strategies for interdisciplinary courses, inviting close reading and dialogue through a spectrum of historical and modern texts. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.