This presentation will look at the beginnings of a project on pedagogy and socialization in MLIS. Expanding upon Ursula Kelly’s “pedagogy of desire”, I attempt to map a framework from Samuel Delany’s Times Square Red, Times Square Blue onto the MLIS classroom. I argue that the act of seeking other students in the classroom allows for a manifestation of Delany’s contact versus networking principle, and that by choosing to center contact we can move closer to a pedagogy that refuses a mind/body split. Looking to MLIS classrooms as sites of potential transformation, how can we encourage pleasure and seeking as facets of learning and connection?
Gretchen Alexander
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- Cruising the Classroom: Contact and Desire in MLIS - May 3, 2021