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For this geospatial analysis project, I wanted to learn more about women printers in the early eighteenth century—I was really interested in using a historical map, and this seemed like an interesting avenue. Where did women in the print trades work? How many were there? Were they located centrally, or marginally, geographically speaking? I did …
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Our final show just wrapped! This summer, I've been working with the amazingly talented Jon Gann to produce a Capital Fringe 2016 show on the famous "Rabbit Woman of Godalming," who gave birth to a series of rabbits--in parts--over the course of a few months in 1726. It was a song cycle, each song in …
This is the proposal for my 2012 ASECS talk; I'll post the full (and very different) piece soon! The process of creating sound public knowledge shares a great deal with the knowledge-making procedures in the arts and humanities. These procedures include interpretation, judgment, imagination, and expression…. In this respect, then, the humanities scholars are natural …
What is Omeka? Essentially, Omeka is an open-source and extensible software tool that allows you to create digital archives and collections of resources. For instance, a museum might want to create an accessible web-based repository of some of their collections in a way that makes research (or just more information) about them possible without being …
Tomorrow, I'll be leading a Scholar's Day mock classroom event with 9 newly-admitted students who received high academic awards. My presentation is titled "Beware Women! Jonathan Swift and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu on Women and Writing in the 18th Century." I love to teach these classes, particularly because they offer us an opportunity to start …
This March at ASECS, I'm presenting my work on the development of a collaborative digital assignment for graduate students (which could also work for advanced undergraduates) organized around the creation of items in an Omeka collection. The idea is to work together to define and populate a subcollection of materials housed in our small special …
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As technologies change our environments for reading, writing and research, it is incumbent on our scholarly organizations to take note. And what group is better prepared to explore our digital future than the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing SHARP, dedicated as it is to the interdisciplinary study of the history of …
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"Abject, Delude, Create: The Aesthetic Self-Consciousness of Early Eighteenth-Century Farce." Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research (Volume 25 Issue 1) Abstract: In the early eighteenth century, farce was a much-maligned form of theater, in part because of its over-indulgence in the corporeal. This essay seeks to re-conceptualize the significance of farce by examining its self-conscious spectacularization …
As we wound up our discussion of Moll Flanders on Wednesday, I was especially interested to note student's investment in ethical questions--both those raised by Moll herself, and those raised by our reading of Moll. I briefly raised the "surprised by sin" argument, and we considered whether it could be applied to Defoe's novel. Our …
I'm so very much looking forward to EN426 this term! We had what I thought was an excellent first class last night, though the first portion was livelier than the second--of course, we were discussing Haywood at the beginning, and I modeled a sample presentation on Backscheider & Richetti's Popular Fiction by Women in the …
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