Mary K. Holland is Professor of English at The State University of New York at New Paltz, USA. She is the author of The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Succeeding Postmodernism (Bloomsbury, 2013), and co-editor, with Stephen J. Burn, of Approaches to Teaching David Foster Wallace (2019).

Heather Hewett is Associate Professor and Chair of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and an affiliate of the English Department at The State University of New York at New Paltz, USA. Her work on feminism, gender, and contemporary literature has been published in scholarly journals and edited collections as well as mainstream and literary publications.

Introduction: Literary Studies as Literary Activism
Heather Hewett and Mary K. Holland, State University of New York, New Paltz, USA

Part 1: Critical Practices

1. "Dismissed, trivialized, misread": Re-Examining the Reception of Women's Literature through the #MeToo Movement
Janet Badia, Purdue University, USA

2. Reading Survivor Narratives: Literary Criticism as Feminist Solidarity
Tanya Serisier, Birbeck College, University of London, UK

3. Evoking the Specter of White Feminism in the #MeToo Movement: Publishing Memoirs and the Cultural Memory of American Feminism
Amanda Spallaci, University of Alberta, Canada

4. Pricing Black Girl Pain: The Cost of Black Girlhood in Street Lit
Jacinta R. Saffold, University of New Orleans, USA

5. From #MMIW to #NotInvisible: Indigenous Women in the #MeToo Era
Kasey Jones-Matrona, University of Oklahoma, USA

6. Credibility and Doubt in the Age of #MeToo
Namrata Mitra and Katherine Connor, Iona College, USA

[...] Possibly the Last Essay I Need to Write about David Foster Wallace
Mary K. Holland, State University of New York, New Paltz, USA

Part 2: Re-readings

8. Philomela's Tapestry and #MeToo: Reading Ovid in an Indian Feminist Classroom
Aditi Joshi, Anushka Srivastava, Katyayani, Mahwash Akhter, Prasanta Bani Ekka, Shivangi Tiwary, Shweta, and Zahanat, Miranda House, University of Delhi, India

9. "Be wary of the delusions of fancy!": Silencing and Rape Culture in Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette
Hannah Herndon, Tufts University, USA

10. "Fearful of being pursued, yet determined to persevere": Northanger Abbey and the #MeToo Movement
Douglas Murray, Belmont University, USA

11. The Limits of #MeToo in India: Rereading Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India and Deepa Mehta's Earth
Nidhi Shrivastava, University of Western Ontario, Canada

12. Intimate Violence and Sexual Assault in Kopano Matlwa's Coconut: Carving Spaces of Feminist Liberation in Post-Apartheid South African Literature
Nafeesa T. Nichols, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway

[...] Other Men of #MeToo: Male Rape in Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life, Sapphire's The Kid, and Amber Tamblyn's Any Man
Robin E. Field, King's College, Pennsylvania, USA

14. Reading Junot Díaz after Me Too and #MeToo
Ann Marie Alfonso Short, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, USA

Part 3: Pedagogy

Practices and Methods

15. Beyond Safe Spaces: Working Towards Access and Accountability Using Trauma-Informed Pedagogy
Maureen McDonnell, Eastern Connecticut State University, USA

16. Trigger Warnings: An Ethics for Tutoring #MeToo Content and Rape Narratives in Writing Centers
Beth Walker, University of Tennessee at Martin, USA

17. From Sympathy to Detoxification: Pedagogical Approaches for Dismantling Rape Culture
Jeremy Posadas, Austin College, USA

18. Theorizing "Toxic" Masculinity across Cultures and Nations: The Case of Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Heather Hewett, State University of New York, New Paltz, USA

19. "I said nothing": Teaching Corregidora and Black Women's Relationship to Consent
Carlyn Ferrari, Seattle University, USA

20. "Teach as if you aren't afraid of getting fired": A Queer Survivor's Use of Restorative Justice Circles to Embrace Vulnerability in the Classroom
Sarah Goldbort, University at Buffalo, USA

21. Praxis of Empowerment: Latina Decolonial Feminist Pedagogy and Jaquira Díaz's Ordinary Girls
Roberta Hurtado, State University of New York, Oswego, USA

Classroom Contexts

22. Teaching the #MeToo Memoir: Creating Empathy in the First-Year College Classroom
Elif S. Armbruster, Suffolk University, USA

23. Teaching Courtly Love in the Medieval Classroom: Desire, Consent, and the #MeToo Movement
Sara V. Torres, University of Virginia, USA, and Rebecca F. McNamara, Westmont College, USA

24. Centering Black Women in the Classroom: Teaching Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl after #MeToo
Linda Chavers, Harvard University, USA

25. Lessons in Credibility and Complicity in Two Modern Dramas
Amy B. Hagenrater-Gooding, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, USA

26. An Impulse Toward Agency: Teaching Scenes of Sexual Violence in Afro-Latina/o/x Literature
Ethan Madarieta, Syracuse University, USA

27. New Approaches to Short Fiction and Nonfiction in the Classroom: Challenging Violence from Queer and Straight Perspectives
Zoë Brigley Thompson, The Ohio State University, USA

28. Recruiting Warriors: Using Literature in College Classrooms to Fight and Win "The Longest War"
Candice Pipes, United States Air Force, USA

Notes on Contributors

Index