Please contact facilitator Matt Russell at mrrussell@mail.utexas.edu" if you have questions about or would like to attend this panel.


Most graduate students have a working teaching philosophy in mind when they prepare to go on the job market. However, at the beginning of graduate school, new teaching assistants and assistant instructors often find themselves struggling to find their teaching approach. New instructors who identify themselves as feminists often wonder how to be feminists in the classroom. In an effort to get graduate students thinking about these issues earlier in their careers, this roundtable will workshop a feminist pedagogy website for graduate student instructors at the University of Texas.

Our website aims to be a compilation of resources to help instructors incorporate feminist teaching philosophy in the classroom. Potential content includes sample teaching philosophies, syllabi, assignments, and classroom activities as well as links to relevant journals and reference materials and related interest groups on campus. In building this website, the main challenge will be organizing content for feminist instructors across disciplines and making the website a site for community where instructors can collaborate and participate in developing content.

The participants in the workshop and collaborators on the website, CWRL instructors Erin Boade, Lee Anne Gallaway, Amanda Moulder and Jodi Relyea, will present a working framework and design of the website. We welcome anyone interested in pedagogy and technology to the workshop and look forward to any feedback and suggestions on how to design a website useful for graduate student instructors interested in feminist pedagogy across the university.

This is the third of a four-part series about the CWRL Colloquium. The colloquium will take place on November 5 in the Eastwoods Room of the Texas Union. Upcoming spotlights will describe each of the colloquium roundtable discussions.