“How can older literary forms be ‘translated’ into an online forum? What new kinds of translation, communication, and writing can emerge out of online collaborative work?”
—Prof. Nicole Zeftel
“Your final project for the course will take the form of an updated, multimedia commonplace book. A commonplace book was a way for Renaissance writers to collect together passages from their reading that they found interesting or worth rereading.”
—Prof. Stephanie Insley Hershinow
“My course met face to face on Tuesdays and in hybrid form on Thursdays. Typically, Thursday “class” activities consisted of discussions board activities in which students looked at model texts, analyzing them by applying elements of the readings. I read through these responses and pulled out themes to begin face to face discussions on Tuesdays.”
— Prof. Brooke Schreiber
“This assignment asks students to add a tale to The Thousand and One Nights on the course blog. Through an act of creative imitation that exploits the Nights’ additive structure, students participate in the text’s history of multi-author composition. They also prepare for a face-to-face discussion analyzing its intricate narrative form, and the relation of form to content.”
—Prof. Laura Kolb