ENGL6306 · English
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
This course is about archival methods and methodologies in action. We will read exigent work in Writing Studies and Critical Archival Studies to learn about what archival work entails and how it happens how are archives created? Sorted? Indexed? Digitized? And what are the power dynamics associated with these tasks? In other words, we will consider who gets deemed archivable, how, and by whom, and we will explore the sustainability of such work. Students can expect to gain tangible experience exploring multiple archives (both print and digital) in order to see how to build a research project out of this work. The course fulfills the Seminar requirement for undergraduates. The course counts towards the DH certificate for graduate students.
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4.9 / 5
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4.8 / 5
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4.9 / 5
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4.8 / 5
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~5
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Fall 2024
1 section