Assigments

questus libris: getting the books

Craft an “essay” describing, characterizing, and critiquing (or commenting on) how you acquire the texts for this course. This essay may be written, spoken, drawn (illustration, infographic), photographed or otherwise crafted but it must offer a narrative that comments, explicitly or implicitly, on your bookseeking experience and it must be uploadable to this website. Once you decide on your medium (textual/audio/visual), consider what genre it fits into: journalistic essay, scholarly investigation, or personal narrative and/or may fit into social media post (twitter, instragram, facebook) or other online submission format (vlog, blog, pod), etc. This essay has no length criteria but it should be brief and can be very brief, if done with careful creativity. Humor is welcome.
submission format: post to course website with tags and categories #questuslibris and those of your own making.
due date: Week of April 10

questus podcastus: creating the pods

Working in groups of 2-4 people, creating serial podcast chronicling your experiences in taking this course and reading these materials. This podcast should maintain the genre of a podcast having an intro (with or without music), a format (discussion, interview, etc.), and a short to medium episode length (12-30 minutes). It should also have a name.
submission format: post to course website with tags and categories #questuspodcastus and the name of your podcast crew (and others of your own making.
due dates: as they come out (see calendar for a suggested schedule)

questus reviewus

Review Essays: A Tweet, a Goodreads or Amazon Review, a Lit Hub profile or Bookforum post –  of one of the texts we encounter
submission format: post to course website with tags and categories #questusreviewus and the name of your podcast crew (and others of your own making.
due dates: as they come out (see calendar for a suggested schedule)

questus projectus

Your Digital Humanities Project can be a website, an essay, a video, or some other multimedia project roughly equivalent to 2000-2500 words. It can broadly cover the texts or topics in the class, but should not be limited to them. You may interrogate new mediums of “literature” (audio/video, video-gaming, etc.) or new ways of “reading” (binge, discontinuous, etc.), or new platforms (e-reading, audiobook/podcast). You may want to address issues of adaptation (book to film, film to book, song to film) and transmedia storytelling. Regardless of your approach, your project should offer critical engagement with the course materials and topics and be mindful of how its medium conveys its message.
submission format: TBD – born digital all around
due dates: Last Week of Class