Session Information
Description: This interactive poster session highlights classroom lessons and assignments that interrogate material-textual objects. Presenters demonstrate activities that ask students to play card games, investigate “book dummies” or historical newspapers, craft ink and quills, record audio, make Little Golden Books, or cook historical recipes. These assignments propose experiential models for teaching students bibliography and book history.
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Speakers
Ryan Cordell, Northeastern U
Amy Chen, U of Iowa
Amy Gore, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Alex Hildago, Texas Christian U
Clare Mullaney, U of Pennsylvania
Emily Brooks, U of Florida
Marissa Nicosia, Penn State U, Abington
Blevin Shelnutt, Concord U
Cary Hollinshead-Strick, American U of Paris
Presider
Lindsey Eckert, Florida State U
Respondent
Rhae Lynn Barnes, Princeton U