In this piece, I first introduce Pera’s nineteenth-century sewers as a gateway
to exploring the district’s interconnections with its surrounding geographies,
which requires a close study of infrastructural plans. I then propose the
methodological virtues of juxtaposing these with insurance maps, frequently
utilized in the conventional his…[Read more]

Review of Peter H. Christensen, Germany and the Ottoman Railways: Art, Empire, and Infrastructure. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017.

Traditional college textbooks reprint literary works removed from the print cultures in which they appeared. But this class featured works of nineteenth-century American literature as they were originally published through a variety of databases such as the American Periodicals Series (APS; accessed through UCCS’s Kraemer Family Library) as well a…[Read more]

EN 124, College Research, is the second of a two-semester course designed to refine reading, writing, speaking, and critical thinking skills, and to introduce students to the principles and methods of college-level academic writing and research. Writing assignments will be based on a combination of personal experience, analysis, and research.…[Read more]