pedagogy
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A Muppet History of the Book
At the beginning of special collections instruction sessions, I sometimes ask students what books are meaningful to them and why. If there’s time, I might share The Monster at the End…
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I Made This For You: Reflections on Responding Materially, or Grading as Making
Since 2021, in my “Book History in Practice” class at the University of Toronto, I have given an assignment I call “material experiments.” The most basic articulation of the assignment…
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Revamping Hobson-Jobson
The Dictionary Project Assignment is from my upper-division class “Novel in India.” One of the university’s few offerings on South Asia, the class attracts English, History, and Anthropology, and Political…
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Welcome Back to SHARP in the Classroom!
Our new SHARP in the Classroom editor, Rebecca Baumann, shares this re-introduction to our pedagogy section and discusses our expectations for new submissions.
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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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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…