Taking Risks in Learning and Teaching: A Student-Faculty Dialogue about Intersectionality and Digital Narratives

Comparative Studies, enrolled in a class taught by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, an Associate Professor of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. We subsequently presented about the experience of creating and teaching digital narratives for the Academy of Teaching Mini-Confer-ence in the Spring of 2010. The following is a dialogue between us as we exchanged ideas and questions about how we approach the experience of learning and teaching as well as our reflections about creating digital narratives. Sam: Why I chose to take a class labeled “Intersections: Race, Gender, and Sexuality ” is an easy question for me to answer. Quite simply, it sounded very interesting. I am, and always have been, very interested in the cultural intersections of race, gender, and sexuality, as they are sub-jects that pervade our daily lives in often subtle, yet sometimes explicit, ways. I first became interested in these intersections in high school, when an intersection of race and seniority disrupted a few otherwis