Making Zines with the Rutgers Art Library
Digitized zines made by Rutgers Students
Monstrous Zines- Created by Rutgers English 201 students who worked with Elif Sendur, Assistant Teaching Professor, Rutgers, English Department- https://sites.rutgers.edu/monstrous-zines/.
Teaching with Zines from your friendly neighborhood zine librarians
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Lesson Plan Examples
Lesson plans from Barnard College:
Lesson A - What is a zine? What is the value of protest?
Content Areas: English Language Arts, Information Literacy
Level: Intermediate, Grades 7-9
Lesson B - Why zines? How can those outside the mainstream get their voices heard?
Content Areas: Media Literacy, Information Literacy
Level: Secondary, Grades 10-12
Lesson C - How do systems of power repress voices of dissent?
Content Areas: English, History, Political Science, Information Literacy
Level: 12th Grade or Early College
Readings on Teaching with Zines
Lonsdale, Chelsea. 2015. “Engaging the ‘Othered’: Using Zines to Support Student Identities.” Language Arts Journal of Michigan 30 (2). https://doi.org/10.9707/2168-149X.2066.
Congdon, Kristin G., and Doug Blandy. 2003. “Zinesters in the Classroom: Using Zines to Teach about Postmodernism and the Communication of Ideas.” Art Education (Reston) 56 (3): 44–55. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043125.2003.11653501.
deGravelles, Karin H. 2011. “In the Ruins of Zine Pedagogy: A Narrative Study of Teaching with Zines.” ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.
Etengoff, Chana. 2015. “Teaching Note: Using Zines to Teach about Gender Minority Experiences and Mixed-Methods Research.” Feminist Teacher 25 (2–3): 211-. https://doi.org/10.5406/femteacher.25.2-3.0211.
Scheper, Jeanne. 2023. “Zine Pedagogies: Students as Critical Makers.” Radical Teacher (Cambridge) 125 (125): 20–32. https://doi.org/10.5195/rt.2023.963.
Zine Rubric from Teaching Times
Example rubric from Michelle Alonso
learn more about this zine assignment from Michelle Alonso:
