Professor Mara Scanlon is a regular on UMW Blogs, she has been cranking out the goodness for well over two years now, and the latest installment is yet another iteration of the exciting work her students do over the course of a semester. The EDHD blog is a space for this upper-level seminar to share a wide range of things, such as literature reviews, relevant resources, research, and literary criticism. I have been pushing her to use the blog as a final collection of the classes seminar papers—a journal of sorts—because the ideas they’ve been discussing would make it a unique online contribution to the available literature about the intersection of these two amazing poets. Not to mention it is such a super attractive site, it begs to be read 
Archive for April, 2009
EDHD or, Emily Dickinson & HD
Saturday, April 18th, 2009Our Nineteenth-Century American Museum
Friday, April 10th, 2009
Nat Turner's slave rebellion
Professor Krystyn Moon’s Nineteenth-Century American Museum site is a wonderful collection of iconic images and brief descriptions of some of the most powerful events, figures, and representations of identities during the 19th century in the US. In this post I’ve included just three recent examples of a wide-range of subjects that are being aggregated into a central course “exhibit,” all of which are coming from the various, individual student blogs.
Click on any of the images to be taken to a student’s post on the selected topic, or click here to browse a wide-range of issues at the aggregated class exhibit.
Lithograph of Charles Sumner
We Draw The Line At This
Enjoy this class exhibit, it is one of my favorites. And just try and tell me links and images don’t make the online medium!
UMW’s Faculty Academy: The (Un)Common University
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
It’s that time of year again, in less than six weeks the 14th annual Faculty Academy will be happening here at UMW. Do you want to see the innovative work happening around UMW with educational technologies (some of the most impressive in all of higher ed!)? How about presenting your own work? Care to hear from a stellar line-up of distinguished invited speakers? Looking for the opportunity to listen to and engage with a wide-range of faculty from just about every discipline on their particular projects?
If so, save the following dates: May 13th & 14th—and be sure to submit a presentation here (the deadline for submissions is May, 1st) or register here (the deadline for registering is May 6th). See you there!
Exploding Blow Pop
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
I was just reading professor Kelli Slunt’s Food and Chemistry blog for her Freshman Seminar this semester. I got sucked in by all the cool links and recipes, the class uses the site as a space to share links to food blogs, recipes, and information about culinary chemistry. It is a really fun mix of resources. Anyway, I was so intrigued I went back to her class blog for last semester’s seminar on the same topic. And I’m really glad I did because I caught something I missed the first go round, namely—the exploding Blow Pop experiment. What happens when you dip a Blow Pop in liquid nitrogen and then bang it on a hard surface? Well, thanks to this video taken on one the student’s iPhone—can you say Jail broken?—you can enjoy it in slow motion.
