The East Asian Studies Center’s 2009 Teaching East Asian Literature in the High School workshop application is now available online at the the literature workshop homepage. Please visit the website for information about the workshop, schedules, reading lists, and lesson plans from previous years’ workshops, and to download a PDF application. The workshop will take place July 12-18, 2009 in Bloomington, Indiana and is generously funded by the Freeman Foundation.

This weeklong workshop provides a broad overview of East Asian literature to high school English and world literature teachers. Participants are responsible for a $60 registration fee (if accepted), two meals a day during the workshop, and travel to and from Bloomington. All other costs will be covered. Two days each will be devoted to Chinese and Japanese literature and a day and a half to Korean literature. Faculty literature specialists will lead lectures and discussions on the texts that the participants will have read beforehand, and history experts will present on the historical and cultural contexts of the texts. We will also have a curriculum consultant—a high school teacher with many years of experience teaching East Asian literature—discuss practical ways to bring these texts to the classroom.

At the end of the workshop, participants will complete lesson plans based on one of the works studied. With the completion and acceptance of their lesson plans, their school will receive a $300 book-buying grant. Participants may also take the workshop for three graduate credit hours through Indiana University, offered at the in-state tuition rate.

Please feel free to contact me kvenit@indiana.edu with any questions you might have. The application deadline is March 6, 2009, and admission is rolling.