ENGL 285 at Carleton College

This website hosts projects and blog posts created by Carleton College students enrolled in ENGL 285: Textual Technologies: From Parchment to Pixel. Taught by English Professor George Shuffelton, this class explores the histories, technologies, and processes surrounding the book as a material form. It attends to the processes of copying, revision, editing, and circulation; familiarizes students with the disciplines of descriptive bibliography, paleography, and textual criticism; and introduces the principles of editing, in both print and electronic media.

As part of the class, students engage in hands-on practices and experiments to gain insight into the materiality, textuality, and production of a text. The culmination of the class is a digital edition that students complete as part of their final project. Each student records their thoughts and reflections as well as their edition in an ePortfolio, which you can peruse below.

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