This class will teach you how to surf (the Internet) and about the various ways that English studies have been transformed over the last few decades. Starting with some basic close-reading and analysis skills (aided by annotation at COVE Studio), we will then explore how those skills have been increasingly applied to new areas of inquiry (tv, film, culture, critical theory, and politics). Throughout, we will employ new digital tools that change the way we approach our subjects of inquiry, including Web annotation, timeline-building, gallery-building and GIS mapping. As we proceed, we will consider the nature of English studies: What is an English department and how does it relate to the rest of the university? What can you do with an English degree? Why is it necessary to fight for English in an increasingly STEM-oriented world? On November 24, 1967, the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop was founded. Opening up as a Bookshop for LGBT literature, the bookshop was used for shopping, browsing the literature, and a meeting place for LGBT rights groups. The group that mainly used the bookshop was the Homophile Youth Movement in Neighborhoods group, also shortened to HYMN (Craig). This group was started by the bookshop owner Craig Rodwell who had been involved in many homosexual rights activist groups before opening his bookshop. The HYMN was most known for leading rallies within their neighborhood of New York City, advocating for their rights. Once the Stonewall riots happened, the Homophile Youth Movement in Neighborhoods created leaflets that encouraged the police and mafia to stay out of gay bars.
The opening of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop created a place for organizations to meet and a community to form. Since the 1960s, homosexuality was illegal, and many felt outcasted and had nowhere to find...
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This timeline is part of ENGL 202's build assignment. Research a topic that teaches us something about race, class, gender, or sexuality and then contribute what you have learned to our shared class resource. As the assignment states, "Add one timeline element, one map element and one gallery image about race, class, gender, or sex to our collective resources in COVE Editions. Provide images, sources and sufficient detail to explain the historical or cultural element that you are presenting. Interlink the three objects." A few timeline elements have already been added (borrowing from