ABSTRACT
The spatial turn in literary studies has provided new ways to approach modernist texts in the undergraduate classroom. This chapter reflects on the transition that occurred in author's approach to teaching modernist texts and the advantages to be found in viewing modern texts as thematizations of modernity's churning spatial configurations. When exploring the space and place of modernism in the classroom, there always is a danger of producing a set of locations that, in their rendering, become static. In the "maelstrom" of modernity, space is most prominently experienced and expressed as movement. The chapter suggests that using digital tools and digital pedagogy can help undergraduates see modernism's vexed treatment of movement and mobility. By blending theoretical, historical, and archival approaches in the form of a course-based research project, we can register movement and mobility throughout modern literature.
