Skin/Pedagogy

English Literature and Creative Writing Black History Month Lecture

Wendy Lennon was delighted to be invited to give the English Literature and Creative Writing Black History Month Lecture at the University of Lancaster in October 2022. Skin/Pedagogy explores the teaching of Shakespeare through the frame of Skin/Race. Drawing upon Wendy’s career in education, doctoral research at the Shakespeare Institute and her Shakespeare, Race & Pedagogy education initiative, this paper roots Skin/Pedagogy in hope. Influenced and inspired by the work of bell hooks who recognised teaching as ‘a vocation rooted in hopefulness’, the Skin/Pedagogy principles seek to offer Skin/Pedagogy as a symbol of freedom, with the study and teaching of Skin/Race as a tool to obtain freedom.

This paper is based on a chapter Wendy is contributing to an edited collection to be published by Bloomsbury.