Common Humanity: Developing Pedagogies of Inclusive Difference and Diversity

Larisa Castillo - Lecturer, Humanities Core

Dr. Larisa Castillo has served as writing director of Humanities Core since 2012. Her work on Victorian literature, the history of intellectual property, and theories of sovereignty has been published in Nineteenth-Century Literature and the edited volume Provocations to Reading. At Pomona College, she taught courses in Victorian literature, British Modernism, and critical theory.
Her efforts in Core have refocused the curriculum to include writing in multiple genres and mediums. Having conducted a year-long assessment of this pedagogical approach, her current work focuses on the relationship between genre and authorship and on writing in collectivities. Continue reading...