Queer Pedagogies and the University English Classroom: Reflections on Teaching E. M. Forster's "The Longest Journey"

In this reflection I discuss my experiences teaching E. M. Forster's canonical novel "The Longest Journey" (1907) to third-year university students. I argue that there are a multitude of benefits in employing queer pedagogies for teaching English. I consider how queer pedagogies might go beyond questions of representations and visibility and promote 'queer' methodologies for reading that are diverse, student-centred, focus on questions rather than answers.