Women Writers Project

By Jessica Kane, University of Michigan This collaboration was part of the WWP’s Teaching Partners program; for more information, see the digital edition created by the students. Introductory literature courses typically seek to help students understand why stories matter, as well as introduce them to some of the tools we use for textual analysis. Close reading, one of the foundational tools for analysis, requires careful attention to a text’s language, patterns, and gaps – something students often find challenging. A previous course’s success encoding…

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By Haripriya Mehta, Co-founder, MehtA+  In Summer 2022, 15 high school students from all over the world participated in MehtA+’s AI/Machine Learning Research Bootcamp and learned the theory and application of machine learning. Students learned various AI/Machine Learning models including KNN, support vector machines, artificial neural networks, and topics in computer vision and natural language processing.  The students put their newfound knowledge into practice through an exploratory week-long midterm project. The objective of the midterm was to predict the gender of the…

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By Liza Blake, University of Toronto Note: Liza Blake is a pedagogical development consultant for the WWP. This write-up makes reference to the following four files: a syllabus, and three assignment sheets: EWW1; EWW2; and EWW3. CONTEXT AND GOALS This post will describe a three-part “Editing Women Writers” set of scaffolded assignments that I used in my undergraduate course “Early Modern Women Writers” in the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)’s Spring term of 2018. The class’s evaluation was divided: half of the grades came from more typical…

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By Jason M. Payton, Sam Houston State University Note: Jason M. Payton is a pedagogical development consultant for the WWP. He will be joining the faculty of the Department of English at the University of Georgia in the fall of 2018. During the Spring 2018 semester, my early American literature survey course completed a two-phase assignment sequence designed to familiarize students with the broad aims of Women Writers in Review and to introduce them to digital humanities tools and practices. The first phase of the assignment…

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By Amanda Barnett, Texas Christian University Note: Amanda Barnett is a pedagogical development consultant for the WWP. Read the assignment discussed below here and see the syllabus here. Drafting: When I was assigned the Introduction to Women’s Writing course for Spring 2018 I was excited to create something new and, wanting to insert something of my own expertise, I decided that we would spend the semester discussing representations of professional women in literature of all kinds. Because this class is technically at the sophomore level, but…

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By Jason M. Payton, Sam Houston State University Note: Jason M. Payton is a pedagogical development consultant for the WWP. PROJECT OVERVIEW My course is a junior-level survey of American literature to 1865, and my students are primarily English majors and minors (course syllabus here). Most of my students have never had a class in women’s and gender studies, so I wanted to use the survey course as an opportunity to engage students with some of the critical issues raised in these…

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