In this section of The Genius of PWP website, we provide resources to support teaching about Wheatley Peters, her writings, her era, and her many cultural legacies. When you use these materials in your own classroom or in professional presentations, please credit the original authors, using their names as listed below with their contributions.
From National Writing Project (NWP) Teachers with support from Humanities Texas
One set of activities nested within the larger The Genius of Phillis Wheatley Peters initiative generated collaborative writing by NWP-affiliated educators to support teaching about PWP. Visit the Learning from Legacies of Phillis Wheatley Peters section to access these resources.
From John Hanson (independent scholar)
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This presentation explores the influence of Phillis Wheatley Peters' poetry on epitaphs in New England burial grounds.
See Google Slides here. Download pdf of slides here: 
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From event on "Teaching PWP"
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This event shared ideas about teaching Phillis Wheatley Peters' life, poetry, and the texts she inspired.
Download PPT of event here |
From event on "Reading Poetry by and Inspired by Phillis Wheatley Peters"
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This event presents interpretive readings of poems by Wheatley Peters and of poetic texts inspired by her life and writings. Each presenter offers commentary on a single poem, pairing, or related cluster, along with suggestions for teaching about and learning from that presenter’s chosen text(s).
Download PPT of event here Watch recording of event here |
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From Carmen Kynard
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From Carmen Kynard, lead coordinator of our project’s Writing Contest, we provide resources for teaching PWP and her era via texts that will help prepare students to create their own writing inspired by study of Wheatley Peters. Go here.
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From Poetry for All
From the Poetry for All team, a podcast with information for teaching PWP's "On Being Brought from Africa to America" along with several poems by Cornelius Eady that were inspired by Wheatley Peters, as well as related resources
From Linda K Hughes
From Linda K. Hughes at TCU, a guide for students in an undergraduate course on women’s poetry as they prepare to read Wheatley Peters for the first time, along with a copy of the “A Farewel to AMERICA” poem. This can be downloaded here.
From Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures
From a teaching anthology on Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures, 1776-1920, the initial primary text entry (“To the Right Honourable WILLIAM, Earl of Dartmouth”) by Wheatley Peters) with headnote and annotations. This can be downloaded here.
From Sarah Ruffing Robbins
From PWP Project Codirector Sarah Ruffing Robbins, an essay on teaching PWP in transatlantic context, including in conversation with creative texts from The 1619 Project; download here.
Thanks to journal editor Christopher Gair for permission to share this essay from a Page Proof copy of “Locating Phillis Wheatley through Transatlantic, Intertextual Teaching” from Symbiosis: Transatlantic Literary & Cultural Relations, 26.1 (Spring 2022).
Also from PWP Project Codirector Robbins, feel free to download this overview of Wheatley Peters’s life, authorship, and impact:
Download PDF here: overview_ppt_slide_show_on_pwp-by_sarah_robbins.pdf
Thanks to journal editor Christopher Gair for permission to share this essay from a Page Proof copy of “Locating Phillis Wheatley through Transatlantic, Intertextual Teaching” from Symbiosis: Transatlantic Literary & Cultural Relations, 26.1 (Spring 2022).
Also from PWP Project Codirector Robbins, feel free to download this overview of Wheatley Peters’s life, authorship, and impact:
Download PDF here: overview_ppt_slide_show_on_pwp-by_sarah_robbins.pdf
