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Survey for Approaches to Teaching the Works of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

This survey is designed to gather information about the methods and materials used by instructors when teaching the works of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. The purpose is to develop a new volume on the topic in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature.

Respondents are invited to provide concrete answers to the questions related to their teaching and are also encouraged to submit a proposal for a contribution to the volume. Proposals and survey responses are due 1 June 2026, after which the survey will no longer be available.

Please answer the questions on the form below and click Done when you are finished. If you wish to submit an essay proposal for the volume, please see item 7 at the end of the survey for requirements.

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1. What course(s) and context(s) do you teach the works of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman in? Which works by Freeman do you teach?
2. What historical backgrounds, theoretical approaches, secondary sources, and related texts (including digital and multimedia sources) do you assign to students when teaching Freeman? Which sources do you rely on when preparing to teach Freeman?
3. How do your students respond to Freeman’s works? What do they enjoy about them? What do they find challenging about them? If you have taught Freeman’s work in multiple contexts, please explain any differences you have observed in how specific student populations have responded to her work.
4. What approaches do you use that have been successful, ranging from class activities and assignments to course structures and goals?
5. What would you like to see addressed in a volume about teaching the works of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman?
6. Is there anything else you would like to add?
7. If you would like to propose an original essay for this volume, please submit the following items:
  1. an abstract of no more than 300 words in which you describe your approach or topic and explain its usefulness for both students and instructors. The focus of your essay should be pedagogical, and the abstract should be as specific as possible.
  2. a short CV

If you plan to quote from student writing in your essay, you must obtain written permission from the student. Proposed essays should not be previously published. Abstracts and CVs should be sent to the volume editors by 1 June 2026. Please send submissions as a Word file, comments, or queries to Samaine Lockwood and Stephanie Palmer at stephanie.palmer@ntu.ac.uk. Send any supplemental materials (e.g., course descriptions, course plans, syllabi, assignments, bibliographies, or other relevant documents) as separate PDF attachments.

Because we value your privacy, we want to make sure you have choices about how your responses are used. Please take a minute to let us know how we should treat your information.
Survey responses may be summarized or paraphrased in the volume. More rarely, survey responses may be included as quotations. Whether summarized, paraphrased, or quoted, survey responses are always used anonymously. Do you give permission for your response to be quoted in the eventual volume?(Required.)
Published volumes include a list of survey respondents. Do you wish to have your name and institution included in the list of survey participants in the published volume?(Required.)
Would you be willing to be contacted by the volume editors about proposing an essay?(Required.)
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