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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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Open forum: pandemic pedagogy?
Teaching is nothing if not having questions and trying to get our students to ask yet more questions. With each twice-yearly issue of SHARP in the Classroom, we’ll host an…
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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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Pandemic Pedagogy: Marginalia in the Marguerite Hicks Collection
Editor’s note: In the spring of 2020, Megan Peiser (Assistant Professor of English at Oakland University) was teaching a capstone course for the English major, “History of the Book in…
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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…
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Introducing SHARP in the Classroom
Remember when you were first learning how to teach? Or when you thought you knew how to teach but were assigned a course in a subject you were barely familiar…
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Call for Submissions: SHARP in the Classroom
SHARP News is developing a new division for writing about book history pedagogy. SHARP in the Classroom will provide tools for teaching book history as well as reflections on pedagogical…
