Friedman receives award for innovative course design
Emily C. Friedman, associate professor of English, has been named one of the 2021 winners of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies' (ASECS) Innovative Course Design competition. The ASECS Innovative Course Design competition has been recognizing exceptional eighteenth-century studies pedagogy since 1985.
The award recognizes Friedman's course, "Let people tell their stories their own way": Tristram Shandy as Novel, Provocation, Remix," offered in Fall 2019 as an undergraduate course, and Fall 2020 as a graduate seminar. Students read the nine-volume novel across the semester, alongside competing novels, parodies, spin-offs that appeared during the novel's publication (1759-1767). The course includes hands-on experiences of the technological innovations author Laurence Sterne used, including paper marbling and typesetting.
Friedman is a scholar of the long eighteenth century, using book history and digital practices in her classroom and in her research. She is particularly interested in recovering the lived experiences of readers and writers: from the ways they understood scent to the notebooks they used, to the effects of changing market pressures and technologies on the experience of literary exchange. She is the director of 18thConnect.org, a peer-reviewed aggregator for digital projects, and Manuscript Fiction in Age of Print, a small-scale digital project that describes, transcribes, and encodes fiction that survives in manuscript from between 1750-1900. Her next book, A Literary History of Alternative Circulation in the Age of Print, tells the long history of fiction shared and read outside of commercial print, from the eighteenth-century to the present. She is also at work planning her next innovative course, on narrative structures in video, board, and role playing games, to be offered in fall 2021.
Related Articles
-
Shifting the industry: Auburn student studies shift quality factors for future nurses
Results showed that workload, department and interactions with patients, co-workers and supervisors all influenced shift quality. -
Auburn University, The Election Center partnership professionalizes elections work
Auburn partnered with the National Association of Election Officials, also known as The Election Center, more than 30 years ago. -
Alley publishes new book on wastewater management in India
The book includes detailed case studies describing how residents, workers and scientists interact with technology, science and engineering during the processes of treatment and reuse of wastewater in India. -
‘I can fix him’: Louise Schulmann-Darsy studies what it means to be a woman through romance novels research
In both historic and modern romance novels, English student Louise Schulmann-Darsy uncovered a pattern. -
Auburn Department of History, College of Engineering faculty recreating 500-year-old mechanical hand
Researchers in the College of Liberal Arts’ Department of History and the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering at Auburn University hope to recreate part of the past by creating a working model of one of the world’s earliest mechanical prosthetics. -
'Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know' about Christmas
In this yuletide adventure, host Brandon Etheredge and Associate Professor of History Christopher Ferguson unwrap the layers of Christmas traditions.