Using Commonplace Books to Enrich Medieval and Renaissance Courses

Sarah Parker is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Center for Gender + Sexuality at Jacksonville University. Her research interests include Renaissance literature, history of medicine, and history of the book. Her work has recently appeared in History of Science and History of European Ideas.Andie Silva is Associate Professor of English at York College, CUNY and of Digital Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on digital pedagogy, digital humanities, and history of the book. She is the author of The Brand of Print: Marketing Paratexts in the Early English Book Trade (2019) and co-editor, with Scott Schofield, of Digital Pedagogy in Early Modern Studies: Method and Praxis (2023).

• "Introduction," by Andie Silva and Sarah E. ParkerPart 1: Why Teach Using Commonplace Books?Chapter 1: "Resources, Materials, and In-Class Activities for Introducing Undergraduates to Commonplacing as Praxis," by Nicole Hagstrom-SchmidtChapter 2: "Rebuilding the Brit Lit I Survey around the Commonplace Book," by Dana Schumacher-SchmidtChapter 3: "Student Commonplace Books and Verse Miscellanies, ca. 1516–2022," by Joshua EckhardtChapter 4: "Teaching with Commonplace Books in the Age of #RelatableContent," by Vimala C. PasupathiPart 2: Adapting the Commonplace Book AssignmentChapter 5: "Productive Disruptions: Using Commonplace Books to Resist Eurocentrism," by Andie SilvaChapter 6: "Encoding Early Modern Commonplace Books in the Classroom," by Laura EstillChapter 7: "Opportunities with Omeka: Commonplacing on the Digital Platform," by Alison HarperChapter 8: "Poetry at Play: Commonplace Books in a Game-Themed Literature Survey," by Nora L. CorriganCodaChapter 9: "Managing the Commonplace Book Assignment: Putting this Volume to Practice," by Sarah E. ParkerSelect Bibliography