WWP Texts Research and Teaching

Old Texts, New Strategies: Researching and Teaching Early Women Writers Online

Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 1999

This is the record of an MLA session organized by Elizabeth H. Hageman, which focused on uses of Renaissance Women Online in teaching and research. The papers from the session are listed below. Several of the participants also provided syllabi for the courses they taught with RWO, which are listed below.

Papers

• "Inside the Black Box: Designing and Understanding Online Research Tools," Julia H. Flanders, Brown University
• "Using the Archives, Weaving the Web," Frances Nicol Teague, University of Georgia
• "A Home 'upon the Way': Travel Encounters with Two Seventeenth-Century Women Quakers from the Women Writers Project," Kirilka S. Stavreva, Saint Ambrose University
• "The Goose's Quill: Teaching Early Women Writers and the Challenge of Sources," Jennifer Summit, Stanford University

Syllabi

• The Age of Elizabeth (Elizabeth H. Hageman)
• Materials and Methods for the Study of Pre-18th Century Women Writers (Jennifer Summit)
• Renaissance Literature: The Matter of Words and Images (Kirilka S. Stavreva)