Teaching Bibliography, Textual Criticism, and Book History
400-word proposals due by April 1st.
Teaching Bibliography, Textual Criticism, and Book History will offer a variety of approaches to incorporating discussions of book history or print culture into graduate and undergraduate classrooms. TBH will consider the book as a literary, historical, cultural, and aesthetic object.
TBH will offer discussions on book history pedagogy by a variety of scholars who teach bibliography, textual criticism, or book history in a range of courses, departments, and settings.
The volume will address the following questions:
-What strategies (and materials) do teachers use to bring book history or textual criticism into the classroom?
-How do teachers define book history in their classrooms?
-How do teachers incorporate issues of authorship, reading, and publishing into the curriculum?
-What values does teaching book history bring to the classroom?
-What purposes do teachers hope to fulfill by raising such issues in their curriculum?
-Does teaching book history require teachers to reconceptualize existing courses or can it be added into existing classes effectively?
-What issues and questions do such courses raise for bibliography in particular and for the curriculum in general?
-What purpose does teaching book history in the undergraduate curriculum serve?
-What purpose does teaching book history in the graduate curriculum serve?
Subjects of essays may include, but are not limited to, the following:
-Book history and print culture
-Bibliographic theory, textual criticism, and editing
-The role of critical theory in the methods course
-The role of technology in the research process
-The limitations and advantages of technological tools
-Teaching descriptive bibliography
-Teaching analytical bibliography
-Outlines or surveys of course organization with rationales
-Establishing cooperative relationships with libraries, booksellers, publishers, and printers
Proposals of 400 words due by April 1st by email or post.
Completed essays will run between 2000-3000 words.
Inquiries welcomed.
Ann R. Hawkins
Bibliography and Research Methods
Department of English
Texas Tech University
Lubbock TX 79409
806 742 2500 x296
ann.hawkins@ttu.edu
