Current Courses  ♦  Past Courses  ♦  Student Projects

Spring 2013 Courses

• Food & You (Engl. 1B)
• Introduction to Literary Criticism (Engl. 101)
• Dickens in the Digital Age (Engl. 183)
• Project Beard-Stair: Creating a Digital Edition (Engl. 204 graduate course)*

*This course is based on the project begun in Fall 2011: Library Exhibit & Digital Scholarly Edition of Beardsley, Wilde/Alastair, Pater rare books (collaborative work performed by a team of students)

Fall 2013 Courses*

• TechnoLiterature (Engl. 10)
• Introduction to Literary Criticism (Engl. 101)
• British Literature Survey 1800-Present (Engl. 56B)
• Introduction to Digital Humanities (LIBR. 220)

*In the past, I have maintained course websites and detailed schedules that were updated daily. This semester, I am working on migrating my online material to a different format (perhaps Wordpress?). All of the above courses are based on courses that I have taught in the past (see below). Watch for new online course materials for the Spring classes to be put up very soon. In the meantime, see some of my blog posts about this semester's teaching adventures over on FairMatter.com or triproftri

Graduate Seminars:

• Eat, Look, Go: Romanticism, Aestheticism, and the Sensualism of Travel (Engl. 232, Fall 2011)
• Romanticism & Madness (Engl 232, Fall 2008)*
• Independent Study for Summer Dickens Universe (Fall 2008)
• Methods and Materials of Research  (Engl 201, Fall 2007)
• Romantic Genders (Engl 232, Spring 2006)
• William Wordsworth: Questioning a Literary Lion (developed but not taught)

English Major Courses:

• Honors Seminar: Digital Literature: The Death of Print Culture? (Engl. 190) Fall 2010*
• TechnoRomanticism (Engl 149) Spring 2008 (see the conference paper abstract about this course), Fall 2009*
• British Literature, Late 18th Century to Present (Engl 56B) Fall 2007 (syllabus contributed to N. Katherine Hayles' resources for Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary), Fall 2010, Spring 2011
• 19th-Century British Novel (Engl 153b) Fall 2006, Spring 2009*
• Gothic Novel & Horror Fiction (Engl 113) Fall 2006, Fall 2008, Spring 2010*, Fall 2011
• Romantic-Era Literature (Engl 149) Fall 2005
• Intro to Literary Criticism (Engl 101) Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011
• Writing Workshop for English Majors (Engl 100W) Spring 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2011
• Brit Lit II: Enlightenment-Modernism (Queens College CUNY) Spring 2005
• Technology & Textuality: Converting “Literature” to the Digital Medium (Hunter College CUNY) Sum 2003 (see article about this course)
• Dickens' Old Curiosity Shop, Dickens Project (UC Santa Cruz) Sum 2003

General Education Courses:

• Great Works of Literature (Engl. 10) Spring 2010
• Intro to Lit (Hunter & Lehman Colleges CUNY) Spring 2000 & 2003
• Brit Lit II: Great Writers (Hunter College CUNY) Spring 2003
• Romantic-Era Survey (Queens College CUNY) Fall 2004 & Sum 2005

Composition Courses:

• Composition I (Engl 1A) Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007
• Composition II (Engl 1B) Spring 2006, Spring 2009 (old format; new course), Fall 2010*, Spring 2011 (pdf)*, Fall 2011*

*This course uses an online learning environment, Moodle or PBWorks, to distribute course materials, write blogs and make discussion board/forum posts. To view the area, please log-in as a guest or request access (wiki).

Student Projects

• Tull Jordan, "Beauty," (Title, Scene 1, Scene 2, Scene 3) an Xtranormal video interpretation of an original play (Digital Literature: Death of Print Culture Honors, Fall 2010)*
• Alison Stephens, "Voici mon Histoire," a blog that revises Shelley's Frankenstein to include the creature's voice (in French) (British Literature, Spring 2011)*
• Hannah Becker, "Euphoria: Inspired by 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'" video (British Literature, Spring 2011)*
• Michelle Nguyen, "Describing Library Game" using xtranormal video scripting (Digital Literature: Death of Print Culture Honors, Fall 2010)*
• Nathan Garavaglia, "Verisimilitude in Left for Dead" video essay (Quicktime or MPEG file -- BOTH LARGE FILES & TAKE SOME TIME TO DOWNLOAD) & Bibliography (Gothic Novel & Horror Fiction, Spring 2010)*
• Susie Riffel, "Winding Path" using PowerPoint (Great Works of Literature: TechnoLiterature, Spring 2010)*
• Miguel Gil, "Prometheus Smurf" video mash-up (Great Works of Literature: TechnoLiterature, Spring 2010)*
• Danielle Rice, "cybertechnology" video mash-up (Great Works of Literature: TechnoLiterature, Spring 2010)*
• Art Brandecker, "The Education of Frankenstein's Monster" (TechnoRomanticism, Fall 2009)*
• Robyn McCreight, "Terror and the Sublime" (TechnoRomanticism, Fall 2009)*
• TechnoRomantic-Era Timeline (TechnoRomantics Students, Fall 2009 - using MIT Simile Timeline, Dr. Brian Croxall's Tutorial & Google Docs spreadsheet)
• Crystle Bruno, "The Lasting Impact of the Absent Mother" (19th C. British Novel, Spring 2009)*
• See all 12 Frankenstein projects by TechnoRomanticists (Spring 2008) using Google Docs and Google Page Creator *
• Joe Garcia, "A Clockwork Orange: Novel or Film" (British Literature Survey, Fall 2007)
• Dori Coblentz, "'Grand Theft Auto' & The Monk" (Gothic Novel, Fall 2006)*
• Raphael DiDonato, "Byron and Mick Jagger" (Romantic-Era Literature, Fall 2005)
• Leslie Hooper, "A Comparison of Two Romantic Poets" (Romantic-Era Literature, Fall 2005)
• Elizabeth Kowal, "Making Romantic Poetry Accessible to Modern Audiences" (Romantic-Era Literature, Fall 2005)
• Unika Laset, "Romanticism and Imagination" (Romantic-Era Literature, Fall 2005)
• Meagan Lillich, "Gothic Doppelgangers" (Gothic Novel, Fall 2006)*
• Hunter College Student A, "KrazyKat" (Technology & Textuality, Sum 2003)
• Hunter College Student B, "Modern and Traditional FairyTales" (Technology & Textuality, Sum 2003)
   

• Steinbeck Textual History Project on The Acts of King Arthur (Fall 2007)*
• Steinbeck Textual History Project on The Pearl (Fall 2007)*
• Lisa Kim, "Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans" (Romantic Genders, Spring 2006)
• Katherine Harris, Experimental Project in Victorian Aftering (Spring 2000)

*This project presents an interesting argument about the literary text while adeptly utilizing the digital format.

 

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