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Wendy Lennon (Oxford) "Skin/Pedagogy" - English Literature and Creative Writing Black History Month Lecture

Black History Lecture - Wendy Lennon

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.

Wendy Lennon FEA is a doctoral researcher at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. Wendy was delighted to be selected as a mentee for the 2022 Madeleine Milburn Mentorship Programme and joins the Literary, TV and Film agency, represented by Emma Bal. In the 2021/22 academic year, Wendy joined the University of Oxford’s English Faculty to work on a European Research Council funded project which has been awarded the 2022 Vice-Chancellor’s Innovation and Engagement Award. Wendy is the Founder and Director of Shakespeare, Race & Pedagogy #ShakeRacePedagogy, an inter-cultural, inter-generational education initiative which seeks to share, celebrate, and reinvigorate approaches to the teaching and study of Shakespeare’s plays. Wendy is a member of the British Shakespeare Association’s Education Committee, the Everything to Everybody Education steering group, and a member of the Early Modern Scholars of Colour Network steering group. Wendy was delighted to accept the nomination as a Fellow of the English Association and is on the Editorial Board for The English Association’s journal, English. Wendy is also an English teacher and has worked in secondary schools for a decade.