Teaching Norman Mailer in the Cloud

Abstract

This author discusses the “legacy power” of Norman Mailer, the challenge of carrying this legacy to the college classroom, and how he radically changed his pedagogy to teach “Norman Mailer’s ‘America’” to college undergraduates. Social media has had an important and drastic affect on communication online and face-to-face and social media may be used as an effective addition to the Humanities classroom in its use to revive undergraduate interest in old print culture, like that of “Norman Mailer’s ‘America.’”