Teaching Text Technologies and Critical Bibliography Among the Disciplines by Heritage, Barbara; A. C. Sy, Donna;

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Teaching Text Technologies and Critical Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Objects of Study is a richly illustrated volume discussing innovative and experimental approaches to hands-on teaching with material texts.?

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Teaching Text Technologies and Critical Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Objects of Study is a richly illustrated volume consisting of 23 methods-based chapters discussing innovative and often experimental approaches to hands-on teaching with material texts. Featuring 47 contributors whose work ranges from digital humanities, librarianship, curation, and conservation to architecture, culinary history, fine art, literary history, and the history of science, the collection builds on new work in the areas of text technologies and critical bibliography?emerging scholarly approaches being embraced in the humanities. The book features established experts in bibliography, the history of the book, manuscript studies, and textual editing, as well as educators and students who are applying new critical bibliographical methods (e.g., Black bibliography) to their pedagogy. The result is a dynamic cross-disciplinary, cross-generational exchange modeling inclusive pedagogies with textual artifacts and illuminating how object-oriented teaching can harness the insights of diverse branches of practice and learning.

"Objects of Study showcases a wonderful explosion of innovative pedagogy and research focused on studying texts as material objects. This well-illustrated volume was developed out of a 2017 conference supported by Rare Book School and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand the purview of bibliography beyond the well-known canon. The 47 contributors model and illustrate inclusiveness and collaboration in sharing their experiences of teaching and practicing the study of books and book history across an exciting range of times, places, and techniques of text-making."

Ann Blair, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard University

?Of making many books there is no end,? the Bible informs us. Rare Book School at the University of Virginia attests to that enduring truth. No educational institution has done more to foster teaching and scholarship about books as material texts embedded in cultural history. . . . Objects of Study offers at once an introduction to the challenges and joys in this field of inquiry and fascinating lessons for the practitioner about how to teach this important and varied subject matter to others.

 Robert A. Gross, author of The Minutemen and Their World 

"Like all books, this book is?literally?a gathering. More than most, it is an intersectional gathering, bringing together not only ?disciplines? but also objects, places, and people, all bound by a common interest in the material conditions of meaning and making. It is (to borrow the locution of the opening chapter) great stuff."

 Matthew Kirschenbaum, Distinguished University Professor and Co-Founder, BookLab, University of Maryland 

"The book is surely the most humane prosthetic device ever devised by advanced human societies. So reading this wonderful collection is both an uplifting and humbling experience. Here is a widely ranging set of essays by a learned company of scholars and educators whose meticulous care for books is an index of their greater care, for the people who produce and maintain and use them. Generosity is the leit motiv for what these admirable people do, stories of human beings at their working and caring best."

Jerome McGann, Emeritus University Professor, University of Virginia

"This wide-ranging collection offers timely and practical pedagogical ideas that will be of immediate use not only in book history courses but in almost any literature or history course that could usefully incorporate hands-on making or analysis of books. . . . whether at a research university or a community college, its incorporation of other languages, of non-Western materials, and of genres ranging from cookbooks to devotional texts will make it of interest to instructors across a variety of fields."

Leah Price, Director of the Rutgers Initiative for the Book and Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor of English

Table of Contents:

List of Contributors

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Foreword???????

Michael F. Suarez, S.J.

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Acknowledgements

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Introduction???

Barbara Heritage and Donna A. C. Sy

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Part 1: Some Reflections on Pedagogical Practices with Material Texts: Past to Present

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1. Stuff: An Overview

Terry Belanger

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2. Teaching Bibliography with Original Printed Things

David L. Vander Meulen

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3. Reflections on Teaching the History of Bookbinding

Jan Storm van Leeuwen

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4. Research Locally, Think Historically: Incorporating Material Texts into the Undergraduate History Methods Classroom???

Elizabeth Yale

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Part 2: Hybrid Methods & Frameworks for Introducing Bibliography to New Audiences

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5. Stealth Bibliography: Or, How to Teach Material Texts in Any College Class???

Claire J. C. Eager

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6. ?A Rare Opportunity in a Language Class?: Bridging Object-Oriented and Second Language Pedagogy

Rachel Stein

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7. The Ghost of Blithfield Hall: A Paleographical and Pedagogical Puzzle

Julie A. Fisher, Sara F. Powell, and Heather Wolfe

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Part 3: Inclusive Instruction with Textual Artifacts

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8. Rare Books, Beyond the Bronx: On Tour with the CUNY Rare Book Scholars

Olivia Loksing Moy, with Eric Holzenberg, Mark Samuels Lasner, and Heather Weintraub

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9. The Ephemeral Langston Hughes?

Laura E. Helton, Theresa Hessey, and Curtis Small, Jr.

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10. Yak Brains, Poisonous Trees, and the Eyes of the Goddess: Himalayan Bookmaking between Worlds

Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa

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Part 4: Books in the Community: Broader Publics & Outreach

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11. Farm to Book: Intellectual Terroir, Civic Humanities, and the Craft of the Book

Tilke Elkins, Vera Keller, and Marilyn Mohr

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12. Teaching Bibliography with Cookbooks in the Continuing Education Setting

Sarah Peters Kernan

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13. ?AB to Z: Artists? Books and Zines, Special Collections Library Instruction, and Community Engagement

Diane Dias De Fazio, Emily Martin, and Jay Sylvestre

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14. Austen in Public???

Juliette Wells

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Part 5: Tools & Approaches for Bibliographical Analysis

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15. ?Materials to Work Withal?: Practical Bibliography as a Pedagogical Model

?Cait Coker and Todd Samuelson

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16. Teaching Collational Format with VisColl?????????

Alberto Campagnolo and Dot Porter

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17. A Potions Lesson: Experiential Learning and the Historical Turn

Alex Hidalgo

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Part 6: Project-Based Learning with Special Collections

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18. Hiding in Plain Sight: The UCSB-Howard Collaboration and the Ballitore Collection

Cecily A. Duffie, Rachael Scarborough King, Danielle Knox, and John Henry Merritt

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19. Crossing Borders?From Slavery to Abolition (1670?1875): A Collaborative Student Exhibit at the Haverford College Libraries

Sarah M. Horowitz and Sarah Watson

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20. Reading Handwriting: Building Tools for Undergraduates in Liberal Arts Schools

Carlson C. Given, Christopher Hager, Emma C. Sternberg, Eric C. Stoykovich, and Hilary E. Wyss

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Part 7: Objects of Study: Forms of Text, Forms of Knowing

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21. Bibliographical Architectures??????

Kyle Dugdale

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22. Pace, Scale, Touch: On Artists? Books as Learning Experiences

Matthew P. Brown, Katharine Lark DeLamater, and Andrew David King

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23. Teaching with Sacred Texts: Spiritual Practice as a Form of Knowledge

Barbara Heritage and Ruth-Ellen St. Onge

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Afterword

Alexia Hudson-Ward

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Works Cited

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Index

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