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Author Biography

Martha F. Bowden, Emeritus Professor of English, Kennesaw State University. Contact at mbowden@kennesaw.edu. After 25 years of teaching, I retired in 2017 from the English Department at Kennesaw State University. I now consider myself on permanent sabbatical, or, as one colleague put it, I now have a 0/0 teaching load. My previous publications include an edition of three novels by Mary Davys for the University Press of Kentucky’s Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women series, and two monographs, Yorick’s Congregation: The Church of England in the Time of Laurence Sterne, and Descendants of Waverley: Romancing History in Contemporary Historical Fiction. My current project, from which this presentation is drawn, is called Eighteenth-Century Women Writers’ Appropriation of the Fable as Subversion and Resistance. My recent essay publications and presentations are likewise drawn from my work on what I call the “fabular hybrid.” I am the Editor of the Pedagogy section of the SEASECS annual, New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century, and was the program chair for SEASECS’ meeting in Decatur, Georgia, in February 2023.

Abstract

In the course of my teaching career, I have used the Anne Finch Digital Archive in two different classes in the English major at my university: the gateway and capstone courses. In the gateway course, it functions as one of several sites in a module on the Digital Humanities, and as a required text in the capstone course. The essay investigates the Digital Archive’s strengths both as an example of a high-quality digital humanities project and as a rich site for the investigation and analysis of Finch’s poetry. Assignment guidelines for the gateway module and the reading list for the capstone courses are included, as are illustrative screen shots from the site itself.

Keywords

Anne Finch, teaching, undergraduate, digital humanities

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