Teaching and learning in popular genre fiction

The project Teaching and learning in popular genre fiction explores the theme of education, broadly conceived, in popular genre fiction from 1900 onwards. This interdisciplinary project utilises a theoretical framework based on, in particular, narrative ethics and genre blending. Such a framework enables an investigation into how different aspects of education are dealt with in fiction, and engaged with by readers, chiefly regarding the teacher/pupil dichotomy and reflections on learning in relation to character development. Our project will primarily be concerned with English-language fiction but will also take transnational distribution and translation into account.