Review of Locating London’s Past and London Lives 1690 to 1800: Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis

This is a reading list for comprehensive preliminary exams to fulfill the graduate degree requirements at Texas A&M University. The list has three main areas: digital humanities, rhetoric and composition, and restoration literature.

Currently, the Chawton House Library holds two copies of Margaret Cavendish’s Plays, Never before Printed (1668). One is what James Fitzmaurice, Jeffrey Masten, and others, refer to as a presentation copy, a printed text that the Duchess of Newcastle presented to libraries, and to contemporary friends and intellectuals. These texts almost always…[Read more]

Using the postmodern theory of Jean Baudrillard I will argue that
Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, especially the relationship between
Chaucer the poet and Chaucer the pilgrim, follows Baudrillard’s order
of simulacra as put forward in his book Simulacra and Simulation.
Applying Baudrillard’s theory of the simulacra to Chaucer’s poem, I
will…[Read more]

Founded by Dr. Robert Hollander, The Princeton Dante Project (2.0) (PDP) is a well-funded project that has received internal funding from Princeton University and external support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Edward T. Cone Foundation, and The Clover Foundation. The PDP has also benefited from…[Read more]

This is the Fall 2017 full course syllabus for ENC 1101: Composition and Rhetoric to be taught at Florida SouthWestern State College.

This is the Fall 2017 full course syllabus for LIT 2000: Introduction to Literature to be taught at Florida SouthWestern State College.

This is the Fall 2017 course syllabus for AML 2010: American Literature to 1865 to be taught at Florida SouthWestern State College.