Charlotte Perkins Gilman's «The Yellow Wall-paper» is one of the most frequently taught short
stories in secondary and college classrooms around the world. What is especially unusual about
the text is the large variety of academic contexts in which the story is included. The
Pedagogical Wallpaper provides educators students and researchers with accessible and
practical approaches to the story with an emphasis on the text as a tool for teaching. The
classroom contexts address women's studies freshman composition literary theory philosophy
and genre studies. In addition the text details how to make use of a MOO space to allow
students to engage directly with Gilman's story through the use of computer mediation.
