Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: a survey of pedagogical approaches to The Canterbury Tales -- Teaching Chaucer's Middle English -- The forms and functions of verse in The Canterbury Tales -- Teaching the prosody of The Canterbury Tales -- Teaching Chaucer in Middle English: the joy of philology -- Worrying about words in The Canterbury Tales -- Getting Chaucer's jokes -- The problem of tale order -- Chaucer and the Middle Class; or, why look at men of law, merchants, or wives? -- Professions in the general prologue -- Teaching Chaucer's obscene comedy in fragment 1 -- The Man of Law's Tale as a keystone to The Canterbury Tales -- Beyond Kittredge: teaching marriage in The Canterbury Tales -- The Clerk's Tale and the retraction: generic monstrosity in the classroom -- Students' "Fredom" and the Franklin's Tale -- The Prioress's Tale: violence, scholarly debate, and the classroom encounter -- Chaucer's boring prose: teaching the Melibee and the Parson's Tale -- How to judge a book by its cover -- Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales in the undergraduate English Language Arts Curriculum -- A first year's experience of teaching The Canterbury Tales -- Teaching The Canterbury Tales to non-liberal-arts students -- Chaucer and race: teaching The Canterbury Tales to the diverse folk of the twenty-first century classroom -- Making the tales more tangible: Chaucer and Medieval culture in secondary schools -- Producing The Canterbury Tales -- Reading food in The Canterbury Tales -- Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales with queer theory and erotic triangles -- Chaucerian translations: postcolonial approaches to The Canterbury Tales -- Chaucer's cut -- Performance and the student body -- Hidden in plain sight: teaching masculinities in The Canterbury Tales -- The Pardoner's "Old Man": postmodern theory and premodern text -- Designing the undergraduate "Hybrid" Chaucer course -- Public Chaucer: multimedia approaches to teaching Chaucer's Middle English texts -- Chaucer's pilgrims in cyberspace -- Translating The Canterbury Tales into contemporary media -- Digitizing Chaucerian debate -- Signature pedagogies in Chaucer studies.