Clemson Curates: Promoting Public Awareness of the Arts through Interdisciplinary Collaborations

Clemson Curates is the product of an interdisciplinary collaboration across the University to promote the arts. Faculty teach experiential-learning courses through a partnership with the Center for the Visual Arts, allowing students to gain practical knowledge and skill sets applicable both in the classroom and in the workforce. In this project, an undergraduate Honors English Accelerated Composition course collaborated with the Lee Gallery to conceive, curate, and promote an exhibit, Corporeal Complexities: Bodies in Progress. Dr. Morgenstern will be discussing the impact of the collaborative project on student learning objectives. Presenters: Dr. John Morgenstern is the managing editor of Clemson University Press and a lecturer in the English Department. He is the coeditor of The Edinburgh Companion to T. S. Eliot and the Arts (forthcoming 2015) and the author of a monograph, T. S. Eliot and the Intellectual Debates of Prewar Paris (under consideration). He is the founding editor of the T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, due to launch with Clemson University Press in 2016. He teaches courses on the relationship between modernist literature and the visual arts, survey courses on transatlantic literature, and composition. His collaboration with the Art Department to establish Clemson Curates brings together his interests in literature, the visual arts, and experiential-learning pedagogy. Joseph Litts is a first-year honors history major at Clemson who worked as one of the project managers for the exhibit project.