Past Institutes

The Great Gatsby at 100 (Spring 2025 Webinar)

 
On April 1, 2025, Humanities Texas held a webinar on on the history of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as a classroom text..

Schedule and Curriculum

Content will be aligned with the secondary-level English language arts (ELA) TEKS. In commemoration of the centenary of its publication in April 1925, the webinar will illuminate how The Great Gatsby has been taught and interpreted from the 1950s to the present. The interactive session will introduce strategies and resources that engage students in an intergenerational discussion of the novel's central themes and motifs.

Like all Humanities Texas teacher programs, the webinar emphasized close interaction with scholars, the examination of texts, and the development of effective pedagogical strategies and engaging assignments and activities.

Faculty

Andrew Newman of Stony Brook University led the webinar.

Schedule

The webinar took place over Zoom on April 1, 2025. The schedule is available here.

Sponsors

The webinar was made possible with major funding from the State of Texas with ongoing support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.