This is a syllabus for ENG 818, a graduate course at Michigan State University in Spring 2022.

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]

This e-book is the first volume of the online publication #Alt-Academy. Edited by Bethany Nowviskie, this volume contains all 24 essays published by the 32 authors who contributed to #Alt-Academy’s initial collection. The following text, also by Nowviskie, is from the 2011 website launch:

#Alt-Academy was created by and for people with deep…[Read more]