Open Educational Resources for a More Just Romanticism

Efforts to diversify the field of Romanticism, long overdue, have intensified recently, and many Romanticist organizations now sponsor programmes aimed at amplifying Black and Brown voices. Most of these efforts have focused on content: how to present Romanticism as a global movement and include non-white authors in our anthologies and syllabi. While these much-needed changes address some of the field’s traditional blind spots, they do little to materially benefit our most vulnerable students or to address the structural barriers that maintain Romanticism’s exclusionary status quo. Open educational resources, or OERs, are one way to begin productively transforming the way the study of Romanticism is taught and reproduced. This article explores how Romantic philosophies and contemporary conceptions of justice might resonate with efforts to transform the material experience of teaching and learning through the open pedagogy movement.