What a difference reading a few blog posts and in-class discussion makes! After my disheartened post of Sunday I went back and read through a number of the course blog posts and comments that students posted last week regarding their reactions to watching Titus and its relation to their experiences reading Titus Andronicus. Their observations were thoughtful, insightful, and while most were still skittish about the representations of violence many were able to transcend that and consider why Taymor had pushed the violence to an almost cartoon-like level.
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Wrestling with Titus
My students have been working their way through Titus Andronicus over the past two weeks. I knew it was ambitious to tackle that play with first-year students who do not, on the whole, express any real enthusiasm for early modern drama. There have been successes so far, most notably their reaction to seeing a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which I’ve written about in TECHStyle. But teaching Titus has been another story.
SCSC Panel Announced
Because considering one conference in one week isn’t enough, I’m organizing a panel at the Sixteenth Century Studies and Conference this fall. Sponsored by Iter and Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, it should be good fun. [Read more…] about SCSC Panel Announced
Day of DH madness
OK. So I’ve begun my DH activities for the day. You can follow me at DH: Diane Jakacki. I’ll be tweeting throughout the extravaganza, but I’m already finding that I’m being more focused on getting things accomplished. Submitted my Fall ENGL1102 course description, and after the good feedback at RSA I’m going to expand the concept of student digital editions with a dialogic examination of the history plays, using the Queen’s Men’s The Famous Victories as a counterpoint to Shakespeare’s Henriad. This is going to be fun!
‘Twas the Night Before DH Day …
Getting my thoughts together for tomorrow’s Day of DH extravaganza. So far day looks like this:
- submit CFP for SCSC early modern panels
- Skype with imageMAT team to map out milestones for next three months
- finish marking students’ #DigitalBard wiki projects
- start transcribing Edwin Nunzeger’s entry on Richard Tarlton for the Tarlton Project
- finish transcribing interview with Nirmal Trivedi and Karen Head for TECHStyle
hopefully I’ll be able to keep things rolling. Follow my exploits:
Day of DH: D. Jakacki