"Teaching Text Technologies and Critical Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Objects of Study is a richly illustrated volume consisting of 23 methods-based chapters discussing innovative and often experimental approaches to hands-on teaching with material texts. Featuring 47 contributors whose work ranges from digital humanities, librarianship, curation, and conservation to architecture, culinary history, fine art, literary history, and the history of science, the collection builds on new work in the areas of text technologies and critical bibliography-emerging scholarly approaches being embraced in the humanities. The book features established experts in bibliography, the history of the book, manuscript studies, and textual editing, as well as educatorsand students who are applying new critical bibliographical methods (e.g., Black bibliography) to their pedagogy. The result is a dynamic cross-disciplinary, cross-generational exchange modeling inclusive pedagogies with textual artifacts, and illuminating how object-oriented teaching can harness the insights of diverse branches of practice and learning"-- Provided by publisher.
Teaching Text Technologies and Critical Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Objects of Study is a richly illustrated volume consisting of 23 methods-based chapters discussing innovative and often experimental approaches to hands-on teaching with material texts. Featuring 47 contributors whose work ranges from digital humanities, librarianship, curation, and conservation to architecture, culinary history, fine art, literary history, and the history of science, the collection builds on new work in the areas of text technologies and critical bibliographyemerging scholarly approaches being embraced in the humanities. The book features established experts in bibliography, the history of the book, manuscript studies, and textual editing, as well as educators and students who are applying new critical bibliographical methods (e.g., Black bibliography) to their pedagogy. The result is a dynamic cross-disciplinary, cross-generational exchange modeling inclusive pedagogies with textual artifacts and illuminating how object-oriented teaching can harness the insights of diverse branches of practice and learning.
Teaching Text Technologies and Critical Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Objects of Study is a richly illustrated volume discussing innovative and experimental approaches to hands-on teaching with material texts.
List of Contributors
Foreword
Michael F. Suarez, S.J.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Barbara Heritage and Donna A. C. Sy
Part 1: Some Reflections on Pedagogical Practices with Material Texts: Past
to Present
1. Stuff: An Overview
Terry Belanger
2. Teaching Bibliography with Original Printed Things
David L. Vander Meulen
3. Reflections on Teaching the History of Bookbinding
Jan Storm van Leeuwen
4. Research Locally, Think Historically: Incorporating Material Texts into
the Undergraduate History Methods Classroom
Elizabeth Yale
Part 2: Hybrid Methods & Frameworks for Introducing Bibliography to New
Audiences
5. Stealth Bibliography: Or, How to Teach Material Texts in Any College Class
Claire J. C. Eager
6. A Rare Opportunity in a Language Class: Bridging Object-Oriented and
Second Language Pedagogy
Rachel Stein
7. The Ghost of Blithfield Hall: A Paleographical and Pedagogical Puzzle
Julie A. Fisher, Sara F. Powell, and Heather Wolfe
Part 3: Inclusive Instruction with Textual Artifacts
8. Rare Books, Beyond the Bronx: On Tour with the CUNY Rare Book Scholars
Olivia Loksing Moy, with Eric Holzenberg, Mark Samuels Lasner, and Heather
Weintraub
9. The Ephemeral Langston Hughes
Laura E. Helton, Theresa Hessey, and Curtis Small, Jr.
10. Yak Brains, Poisonous Trees, and the Eyes of the Goddess: Himalayan
Bookmaking between Worlds
Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa
Part 4: Books in the Community: Broader Publics & Outreach
11. Farm to Book: Intellectual Terroir, Civic Humanities, and the Craft of
the Book
Tilke Elkins, Vera Keller, and Marilyn Mohr
12. Teaching Bibliography with Cookbooks in the Continuing Education Setting
Sarah Peters Kernan
13. AB to Z: Artists Books and Zines, Special Collections Library
Instruction, and Community Engagement
Diane Dias De Fazio, Emily Martin, and Jay Sylvestre
14. Austen in Public
Juliette Wells
Part 5: Tools & Approaches for Bibliographical Analysis
15. Materials to Work Withal: Practical Bibliography as a Pedagogical
Model
Cait Coker and Todd Samuelson
16. Teaching Collational Format with VisColl
Alberto Campagnolo and Dot Porter
17. A Potions Lesson: Experiential Learning and the Historical Turn
Alex Hidalgo
Part 6: Project-Based Learning with Special Collections
18. Hiding in Plain Sight: The UCSB-Howard Collaboration and the Ballitore
Collection
Cecily A. Duffie, Rachael Scarborough King, Danielle Knox, and John Henry
Merritt
19. Crossing BordersFrom Slavery to Abolition (16701875): A Collaborative
Student Exhibit at the Haverford College Libraries
Sarah M. Horowitz and Sarah Watson
20. Reading Handwriting: Building Tools for Undergraduates in Liberal Arts
Schools
Carlson C. Given, Christopher Hager, Emma C. Sternberg, Eric C. Stoykovich,
and Hilary E. Wyss
Part 7: Objects of Study: Forms of Text, Forms of Knowing
21. Bibliographical Architectures
Kyle Dugdale
22. Pace, Scale, Touch: On Artists Books as Learning Experiences
Matthew P. Brown, Katharine Lark DeLamater, and Andrew David King
23. Teaching with Sacred Texts: Spiritual Practice as a Form of Knowledge
Barbara Heritage and Ruth-Ellen St. Onge
Afterword
Alexia Hudson-Ward
Works Cited
Index
Barbara Heritage is the Miranker Family Director of Collections, Exhibitions & Scholarly Initiatives at Rare Book School at the University of Virginia.
Donna A. C. Sy is a past Administrative Director of the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliographya program that she created with Barbara Heritage and Michael F. Suarez, S.J.
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