Using This Anthology: For Instructors
Victorian Poetry and Poetics brings together the primary texts, editorial materials, and student-authored scholarship developed in my upper-division and graduate Victorian Poetry courses at West Texas A&M University. The anthology is designed to support sustained close reading, collaborative inquiry, and a semester-long editorial project in which students produce annotated poems and introductions as digital editions.
In its current form, the anthology reflects one implementation of this model. Instructors are encouraged to adapt, revise, or expand these materials to meet the needs of their own courses or institutional contexts. Unless otherwise noted, content in this anthology is licensed under a CC BY-SA-NC license.
The Front Matter includes several sections that document the project’s editorial and pedagogical framework:
- About the Annotation Showcase Project — provides an overview of the assignment sequence, including ongoing annotation work and the culminating editorial project
- How to Read and Use Hypothesis Annotations — explains annotation practices, group structures, tagging systems, and editorial conventions
- Student Publication Options and Permissions Overview — explains how students choose whether to publish publicly, privately, or under a pseudonym; outlines FERPA-aware practices; and describes the permissions process used to document student decisions
These materials are provided both for transparency and as a model for instructors interested in developing similar public-facing, student-authored digital humanities projects.
