The contributors to Methods for Teaching Travel Literature and Writing: Exploring the World and Self discuss how and why they have integrated travel literature and writing into their courses. Subjects range from the study of travel literature granting insight into how travel authors, such as Bill Bryson and Paul Theroux, convince readers to «buy into» their worlds and reflect the readers' positions in society, to contemplating the meanings of the words «traveler» and «tourist». Other chapters examine how actual traveling can shape students' writing and vice versa, whereas still others address how the study of the genre and actually writing it promotes interdisciplinarity. The contributors to Methods for Teaching Travel Literature and Writing: Exploring the World and Self discuss how and why they have integrated travel literature and writing into their courses. Subjects range from the study of travel literature granting insight into how travel authors, such as Bill Bryson and Paul Theroux, convince readers to "buy into" their worlds and reflect the readers¿ positions in society, to contemplating the meanings of the words "traveler" and "tourist." Other chapters examine how actual traveling can shape students¿ writing and vice versa, whereas still others address how the study of the genre and actually writing it promotes interdisciplinarity. Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1(12) Part I: Sample Courses Teaching Travel Writing: A Voyage of Exploration 13(18) Ulrike Brisson American Travel Literature in the Classroom: Inward and Outward Journeys 31(12) Jacqueline S. Thursby Travel Literature, a Genre for Reluctant Readers 43(10) Eileen Groom Part II: Concerns Interrogating Houghton Mifflin's Best American Travel Writing Series 53(18) Valerie M. Smith Negotiating Privilege in the Teaching of Travel Literature 71(18) Denise Comer Teaching Travel Literature in the Tourist Age 89(16) Jeffrey Alan Melton Part III: Outside the Traditional Classroom ``I Wake to Sleep'': Traveling in the Wilderness with Writing Students 105(12) John Bennion Burton Olsen Writing to Host Nationals as Cross-Cultural Collaborative Learning in Study Abroad 117(20) Leeann Chen Sweet Enchantment: Writing the Journey, Perceiving the Human Condition 137(12) Twila Yates Papay Writing Ireland: Travel Writing as Study and Practice for Students Going Abroad 149(16) Christine S. Cozzens Part IV: Teaching Resources 165(12) List of Contributors 177(4) Index 181