Teaching Existential Inversion in an International Office

Abstract

In this article the author shares her experience of practicingand teaching the technique of existential inversion in the United States. The article outlines recommendations for presenting the topic of existential inversion to people who have not had much exposure to the idea (as was the case in the US). The author argues that an effective way to introduce existential inversion in a new setting is to approach it head-on in a straightforward fashion. This approach offers greater respect to the students as well as their intermissive course. The author has studied the topic of existential inversion since 2002 and later wrote and taught the course “Who, What, Where of Existential Inversion”, in New York, NY, September, 2010.