Women Writers on InstagramExpanding the Literature Curriculum through SocialMedia Performance from a Gender Perspective

Resumo

The present work displays the methodology and results of an activity conducted using ICT and a student-centred learning approach from a gender perspective to expand the curricula of two optional literature modules from the Faculty of Philology at University of Salamanca, Spain. The proposed task is conceived to require an active methodology that favours the development of the students' affective and social responsibility, consequently boosting competences that respond to the challenges we face as we strive to achieve an egalitarian and diverse society. In addition, the project aims at overcoming the gender gap whilst expanding the literary canon through an active, participative, and critical approach to the subjects' contents and texts. Accordingly, the students are expected to be involved in the (de-)construction of the canon as they navigate and research varied perspectives, works, and tools - in this case, ICT and transmedial tools. This chapter will thus display the design, application, and evaluation of the activity "Embodying women writers and characters on social media;' in which students, by creating profiles on the social platform Instagram, embody and perform women writers and characters to enhance their knowledge of these authors, their works, and the context in which they were created. In this regard, they also strengthen their empathy towards their situations and plights as invisibilised individuals.