Department of English

• Wednesday, October 23, 2024 - 3:15pm to 4:45pm

625
Van Pelt Library 3420 Walnut St
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Special collections often contribute to our research as scholars. How do we use them as teachers, and make them an active part of our undergraduate classrooms? This graduate student workshop will give participants a crash course in how to teach with special collections, using the Kislak Center’s special collections as its focal point. Potential topics include: teaching from vs. with the collections; learning from librarians; creative writing from the archives; developing independent research projects; and what to do when a library doesn’t have rare books from ‘your specialty.’

All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the English department, and so may be most useful to students in related fields.

Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.

Part of the CETLI Teaching Certificate Series

• Facilitator: Drs. Zachary L. Lesser, Edward W. Kane Professor of English; and Emily Steiner, Rose Family Endowed Term Professor of English

• Convener: Jonathan Dick, CETLI Fellow, English

 More details and registration: https://cetli.upenn.edu/event/teaching-with-special-collections/