Pedagogical tools
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Find Something and Bring It Back
With the “Find Something & Bring it Back” assignment, students in literature survey courses familiarize themselves with online databases of primary sources (and relevant finding aids) related to the literary…
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From Cuneiform to Twitter
This introductory seminar on how to read a book aims to give undergraduates across humanities disciplines a grounding in the history of the book in Europe while also helping them…
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Scrapbooks as Literary Documents
The scrapbook has a well-established place within the history of the book that spans from early modern commonplace books to the digital layouts of today. These often overlooked textual objects…
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Cultures of the Book
This schedule was devised for an entry-level, gen-ed undergraduate course on book history taught remotely using Zoom and Canvas. While I usually tailor this course to the unique holdings at…