News: “Renaissance Books, Midwestern Libraries”
As some of you may know, I recently received a grant through the “Global Midwest” Humanities Without Walls Initiative. A Mellon-funded program, HWW unites humanities centers at 15 research universities...
View ArticlePhase 1 Report: “Renaissance Books, Midwestern Libraries”
As some of you know, I’ve been working and communicating this summer with a number of librarians, undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty members at several universities across the Midwest. Our...
View ArticleRecap @ NU: “In the Shadow of Shakespeare: 400 Years”
This post offers a recap of “In the Shadow of Shakespeare: 400 Years,” a single-evening exhibit and program on non-Shakespearean anniversaries held on April 7, 2016 at Northwestern University, and...
View ArticleA “prity one”: Frances Wolfreston’s copy of Thomas Heywood’s The English...
The early modern reader Frances Wolfreston (1607-1677) has attracted a considerable amount of attention from scholars in recent decades. “Frances wolfreston her bouk,” she often wrote in her copies of...
View ArticleTeaching English composition with early modern-style “commonplace books”
This fall, I have been trying out a number of strategies to integrate writing exercises, literary readings, and Special Collections visits in my undergraduate pedagogy. These experiments – that’s the...
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