TEACHING ROMANI LITERATURES IN A GLOBAL CLASSROOM

This presentation focuses on the challenges and key takeaways from teaching Romani literatures in a global classroom open to enrollment to students from diverse academic backgrounds across the network.The Literatures of the Roma course was designed to explore works written by Romani authors in national and transnational contexts, while also examining the interrelationship between representations of "Gypsies" by non-Romani authors and questions of identity and self-representation in Romani writers' works.The course builds on the diverse perspectives and cultural capital of the students by inviting them to co-create content in the form of a class book, through activities such translating and adapting original works, as well as comparing different translations of the same text.In this presentation, I aim to illustrate a conceptual framework and approach for teaching the complex and underexplored literary output of Romani authors, alongside innovative, student-centered, project-based methods for engagement in the liberal arts classroom.