Reading Communities: The Social Life of Literature in a Time of Social Distancing As a way of documenting the experience of teaching during COVID-19, I want to share the WE1S-affiliated class that I am currently […]
Reading in Santa Barbara, Future: Building the Utopian University To close out the term for “Reading in Santa Barbara,” we mobilized our insights into past and present reading communities in order […]
Reading in Santa Barbara, Present: Students Plan a Public Humanities Showcase The climactic moment of our syllabus this quarter in “Reading in Santa Barbara” was a student-run showcase, put on in partnership with […]
Reading in Santa Barbara, Past: Finding Archival Communities The backbone of “Reading in Santa Barbara” was a series of four archival sessions in UC Santa Barbara’s Special Research Collections. These […]
Reading in Santa Barbara: Syllabus Design Spring Quarter marks the start of “Reading in Santa Barbara: Past, Present, and Future,” the third and final UCSB class in the […]
How to Solve Problems with Books: Final Showcase To celebrate the last day of class, the students in “How to Solve Problems with Books” hosted a final showcase, open to […]
How to Solve Problems with Books: Voices of Industrialism As a retrospective on the Winter Quarter, I’d like to share a series of lesson plans from “How to Solve Problems with […]
How to Solve Problems with Books: Archives and Advocacy This week marked a real treat for “How to Solve Problems with Books”: a chance to see Victorian print culture up close […]
How to Solve Problems with Books: Creating a Five-Year Plan with the Victorians How do we turn literary analysis into action? This question guides the final installment in a series of three assignments for “Uses […]
How to Solve Problems with Books: Advice from the Victorians How would the Victorians advise us if they could see the effects of industrialism today? The next assignment in “How to Solve […]