Teaching 21st Century Genres

Part One. Contemporary Gothic

1. Genre Trouble: The Challenges of Designing Modern and Contemporary Gothic Modules
Xavier Aldana Reyes

2. Dark Chocolate from the Literary Crypt: Teaching Contemporary Gothic Horror
Gina Wisker

Part Two. Writing Race

3. Teaching Crime Fiction and the African American Literary Canon
Nicole King

4. Genre and its ‘Diss-contents’: Twenty-First-Century Black British Writing on Page and Stage
Deirdre Osborne

Part Three. Utopias and Dystopias

5. Teaching Utopia Matters from More, to Piercy and Atwood
Kate Aughterson

6. Other Mothers and Fathers: Teaching Contemporary Dystopian Fiction
Oliver Tearle

7. Pathways to Terror: Teaching 9/11 Fiction
Mark Eaton

Part Four. World Literature

8. Teaching Translit: An Unsettled and Unsettling Genre
Bianca Leggett

9. Teaching Contemporary Cosmopolitanism
Kristian Shaw

Keywords: Literature, Contemporary Literature, Fiction, Teaching and Teacher Education