The attached syllabus was written for my Spring 2017 graduate course “Technologies of Literary Production.” From the course description: “This course has two complementary goals. The first is to introduce the history of technologies used to produce and circulate literature, from the parchment upon which Beowulf is written to the social media…[Read more]

The attached syllabus was written for my Honors undergraduate seminar “The Art of the Book in the Digital Age,” taught Fall 2016 at UNC Chapel Hill. Here is an excerpt from the course description: “The book’s role and significance within literary culture is being scrutinized today with an intensity unseen for five centuries. Nowhere is this quest…[Read more]

The attached syllabus was written for my upper-level undergraduate seminar “Digital Narratives,” taught Spring 2013 at Duke University. Here is an excerpt from the course description: “This course considers what it means to tell stories in an age of digital media. We’ll begin by writing a traditional short story (fiction or creative n…[Read more]

The attached syllabus was written for my undergraduate seminar “Renaissance Media” (ENGL 281) taught Spring 2016 at UNC Chapel Hill. The learning objectives for the course were as follows:
“During this course, students will:
* learn the basic history and culture of media technologies in England during the early modern period (roughly 150…[Read more]

The attached syllabus was written for my graduate seminar “Digital Editing and Curation,” taught to 8 PhD students/candidates at UNC Chapel Hill in Spring 2016. The course description is as follows:

“This course introduces students to book history and scholarly editing through the frameworks of media studies and digital humanities. In this…[Read more]

The attached syllabus was written for my Fall 2015 section of “Networked and Multimodal Composition,” a 20-student undergraduate digital writing course aimed at Freshmen and Sophmores (although a few upperclassmen were in the class, too). The description for the course is as follows:

“This course aims to empower you, the student, with the t…[Read more]