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This Juxta Commons collation compares the B-Text and the A-Text of Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th century Prologue to the Legend of Good Women. The legends were composed around 1386, but the prologue was written earlier and substantially revised later. It is therefore available in two versions, the A-Text and the B-Text. The B-Text is generally considered the …
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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 …
From March 3rd through the 9th, I was lucky enough to have been invited to give a series of lectures on modern American drama at the Institut Supérieur des Langues de Gabès in Tunisia. The experience was definitely a novel one for me, as I had never had the opportunity to travel outside of western …
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 …
In the past several years, I've tried many, many different workshop methodologies--the full class single-paper workshop one day, followed by small-group workshops the next; round-robin workshops; lightning critiques; the simple exchange/read/comment; send your draft to a peer through email and use Word to comment/merge; in-class electronic workshopping with a peer; in-class polishing at the computer …
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 …
Teaching Carnival 5.05 By Prof. Hacker JANUARY 9, 2012 ORIGINAL POST [January’s Teaching Carnival was compiled by Tonya Howe, Assistant Professor of English at Marymount University. You can reach her via email or on Twitter. ProfHacker has become the permanent home of the Teaching Carnival, so each month you can return for a snapshot of the most recent thoughts on teaching …
Teaching Carnival 5.01 By Prof. Hacker SEPTEMBER 1, 2011 ORIGINAL POST [September’s Teaching Carnival--and the beginning of year five of the TC--is from Tonya Howe, Assistant Professor of English at Marymount University. Tonya blogs at Cerosia and can be reached at thowe [at] Marymount [dot] edu or @howet on Twitter. ProfHacker has become the permanent home of the Teaching Carnival, …
By Kathryn Crowther I was so inspired by how excitedly and with what hands-on innovation the students had responded to the assignment that it led me re-think a lot of my traditional assignments. I started examining the ways that more innovative pedagogy – pushing the boundaries of my own knowledge and comfort – -could inspire …
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