Moving (with) Texts
Urban Mobilities, Narrative Mappings, and Walking Ethnographies for Teaching Literary Geographies
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Abstract
If we understand texts both as “spatial events” that take place otherwise in different spatio-temporal contexts but also as “mobile events” that activate mobilities of different kinds, how does this approach influence our teaching of literary geographies? This paper is inspired by the idea that a mobile approach to literary geography may move our pedagogical practices, mobilising creatively our didactics and activating new experimental and performative ways for teaching (with) texts. The article begins by discussing the opportunities and issues related to the teaching of literary geographies through a mobility-centred approach, inspired by mobility studies and creative pedagogies in the geohumanities. Then it discusses empirical examples of teaching activities set in the Italian contexts and imagined for “moving (with) texts” in and outside the classroom.
Contributor Notes
Giada Peterle is tenure-track assistant professor in cultural geography at the University of Padua, where she is also Scientific Director of the Museum of Geography. She is author of the book Comics as a Research Practice: Drawing Narrative Geographies Beyond the Frame (Routledge 2021). Her works on narrative geographies, creative cartographies, urban mobilities, comics and art-based methods in the geohumanities are published in international journals, including Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Political Geography, Mobilities, Social & Cultural Geography, and Cultural Geographies. As a comics author and illustrator she collaborated with the Royal College of Music on the project Music Migration & Mobility, and published the geoGraphic novel Lines and two illustrated children's books with the Italian publishing house BeccoGiallo.