2023 SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing) Conference

June 26-30, 2023
Online

Madeline will present her paper, “Digital, Archival, and/or Collaborative Approaches in the Victorian Studies Classroom,” at the 2023 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP) Conference, which will be held online. This paper describes the development of an upper-division undergraduate course (“Digital Victorians”) that models ways in which literature courses can move beyond reading texts in facsimile to incorporating digital materials, tools, and methods into individual and collaborative projects. In learning-through-doing how Victorians read, students contribute to a greater understanding and articulation of the course subject than would be possible through more “traditional” engagements with Victorian literature.

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2023 ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
+ AESS (Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences) Conference

July 9-12, 2023
Portland, Oregon

Madeline will present her paper, “Teaching Literature of the Environment at a Jesuit Institution,” at the 2023 joint conference of the ASLE and AESS, which will be held at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon. This paper describes the development of three complementary courses on literature of the environment at the University of Scranton that contribute to its Environmental and Sustainability Studies concentration. Guided by the Society of Jesus’ Universal Apostolic Preferences and other principles of Catholic environmentalism, and through a combination of literary studies and community-based learning, these new courses demonstrate the power of literature to further environmental justice.