CWR Disrupting the Western Canon

The workshop "Disrupting the Western Canon" invites students who feel isolated in their graduate journey and research due to the lack of diversity in resources and the over-reliance on the Western canon. At CGU, students likely interact with dominant scholars in their courses and may identify the exclusion of historically overlooked scholarship as problematic. Our ADC pedagogy offers students language and methods to challenge and thwart the epistemic harm circulating in academia, centering approaches used in a growing movement to diversify literary canons and include a wider range of voices and perspectives. We hope to provide a space for people to learn and grow their research through affirming and anti-racist frameworks.