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Creating An Online Exhibit In A First-Year Seminar: “Luxury Objects In The Age Of Marie Antoinette”, Janie Vanpée Apr 2013

Creating An Online Exhibit In A First-Year Seminar: “Luxury Objects In The Age Of Marie Antoinette”, Janie Vanpée

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

How can students arrive at a closer understanding of the material culture that shaped the lives of the French aristocracy and nascent bourgeoisie of late eighteenth-century France? This is one of the challenges that students face in the first-year seminar, Re-Membering Marie Antoinette, as they study the multiple and conflicting ways that Marie Antoinette was and has been represented in biographies, portraits, memoirs, fiction, film, fashion, plays and pornographic pamphlets, records of her trial in 1793, and the spaces and activies that shaped her daily life. This article focuses on a series of scaffolded assignments that lead students to …


Inviting Twenty-First Century Students To The Eighteenth-Century Party, Kathryn Strong Hansen Apr 2013

Inviting Twenty-First Century Students To The Eighteenth-Century Party, Kathryn Strong Hansen

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

This article describes a classroom activity that increases students’ connection to literary characters, and by extension, texts. The activity, constructed as a party attended by literary characters, tasks students with taking on the point of view of one character in an assigned novel. This can encourage a student to see the viewpoint of a character that differs from him or her in gender, social status, or any other category of difference. In heightening students’ relationship to eighteenth-century characters, I argue, instructors can bring the eighteenth century closer to contemporary students as well as increase students’ sensitivity to viewpoints that differ …


Stuart Women Playwrights, 1613-1713, By Pilar Cuder-Domínguez, R. Mark Jackson Apr 2013

Stuart Women Playwrights, 1613-1713, By Pilar Cuder-Domínguez, R. Mark Jackson

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

No abstract provided.


Populism, Gender, And Sympathy In The Romantic Novel, By James P. Carson, Elizabeth J. Mathews Apr 2013

Populism, Gender, And Sympathy In The Romantic Novel, By James P. Carson, Elizabeth J. Mathews

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

No abstract provided.


Teaching British Women Playwrights Of The Restoration And Eighteenth Century, Edited By Bonnie Nelson And Catherine Burroughs, Judy A. Hayden Apr 2013

Teaching British Women Playwrights Of The Restoration And Eighteenth Century, Edited By Bonnie Nelson And Catherine Burroughs, Judy A. Hayden

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

No abstract provided.


Masters Of The Marketplace: British Women Novelists Of The 1750s, Edited By Susan Carlile, Emily Bowles Apr 2013

Masters Of The Marketplace: British Women Novelists Of The 1750s, Edited By Susan Carlile, Emily Bowles

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

No abstract provided.


Hard Times: Women Scholars And The Dynamics Of Economic Recession, Linda Zionkowski Apr 2013

Hard Times: Women Scholars And The Dynamics Of Economic Recession, Linda Zionkowski

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

No abstract provided.


Transatlantic Stories And The History Of Reading, 1720-1810: Migrant Fictions, By Eve Tavor Bannet, Dustin E. Hannum Apr 2013

Transatlantic Stories And The History Of Reading, 1720-1810: Migrant Fictions, By Eve Tavor Bannet, Dustin E. Hannum

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

No abstract provided.


Funding, Grants, Hiring, Programs: Sharing Advice On How To Get Things Done In Hard Times, Srividhya Swaminathan Apr 2013

Funding, Grants, Hiring, Programs: Sharing Advice On How To Get Things Done In Hard Times, Srividhya Swaminathan

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

No abstract provided.


Staffing: ‘The Part-Time Crisis In The Classroom’, Judith Bailey Slagle Apr 2013

Staffing: ‘The Part-Time Crisis In The Classroom’, Judith Bailey Slagle

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

No abstract provided.


A Deeply-Felt (And Somewhat Revised) Rant: Women, Children And Funding In The Ivory Tower, Nora Nachumi Apr 2013

A Deeply-Felt (And Somewhat Revised) Rant: Women, Children And Funding In The Ivory Tower, Nora Nachumi

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

No abstract provided.


Hard Times: Women Scholars And The Dynamics Of Economic Recession, Julie Candler Hayes Apr 2013

Hard Times: Women Scholars And The Dynamics Of Economic Recession, Julie Candler Hayes

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

No abstract provided.


Cultivating Resources In Hard Times, Catherine Ingrassia Apr 2013

Cultivating Resources In Hard Times, Catherine Ingrassia

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

No abstract provided.


Getting It Done, Lisa A. Freeman Apr 2013

Getting It Done, Lisa A. Freeman

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

No abstract provided.


Intersectionality Of Race, Gender, And Class In The ‘Hard Times: Women Scholars And The Dynamics Of Economic Recession', Christine Clark-Evans Apr 2013

Intersectionality Of Race, Gender, And Class In The ‘Hard Times: Women Scholars And The Dynamics Of Economic Recession', Christine Clark-Evans

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

No abstract provided.


Supporting Women Scholars: How To Get Things Done In Hard Times, Mona Narain Apr 2013

Supporting Women Scholars: How To Get Things Done In Hard Times, Mona Narain

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

No abstract provided.