Using This Anthology: For Instructors
This anthology represents the collection of texts, editorial materials, and student-created scholarship that I use in my 4000/5000/6000-level Victorian Poetry courses at West Texas A&M University. It was designed specifically to support my students’ learning, our collaborative inquiry into Victorian poetry, and the semester-long Annotation Showcase Project in which students create their own digital editions with introductions and annotations.
If you are an instructor exploring this resource, you are warmly invited to adapt, revise, or expand this anthology for the needs of your own classroom or project. Several sections in the Front Matter detail how the editorial and pedagogical framework works in practice:
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Student Publication Options and Permissions Overview — explains how students decide whether to publish publicly, privately, or under a pseudonym; outlines FERPA-aware ethical practices; and summarizes the Qualtrics permissions instrument used to document student choices.
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About the Annotation Showcase Project — provides an overview of the semester-long assignment sequence, weekly annotation practice, and the culminating editorial project that produces the annotations and introductions throughout the anthology.
- How to Read and Use Hypothesis Annotations — explains Hypothesis groups, tagging, and editorial conventions.
These materials are provided not only for transparency, but also to serve as a model for instructors interested in creating similar public-facing digital humanities projects or student-authored OER.
Unless otherwise designated, all content in this anthology is licensed under a CC BY-SA-NC license.
