Dorothy Johnson

My name is Dorothy! I took this class to complete the requirements for the English major. I'm in the media studies track, but I identify far more closely with my minor in creative writing. After this semester when I graduate, I'm starting a career in MCPS substituting, hopefully soon teaching, at the secondary level.

My key takeaway from the class is the strength of the many online archives, the potential they have for the research of any subject, academic and non-. I can't claim a specific focus on C18 literature, but our analyses of such were substantial to me. I recommend the class to anyone who:

• Enjoys history,

• Enjoys literature,

• Appreciates Dr. Karen Nelson,

• Takes academic research seriously,

• Would like to build such skills.

Final Project

My final project for this class was a miscellany of horror stories, which I printed and bound for my own keeping. Below are a few photos of the finished product, as well as the digital document of the miscellany (which I think you need a UMD account to access.)

Resources

From class and outside of class, these are some of my favorite online archives and other spaces that I've found this semester:

• Archive Today webpage capture, an alternative to the Wayback Machine:

https://archive.is/

• The H.P. Lovecraft Archive, which collects the titular author's works and many reviews, critiques, resources, etc. surrounding them:

https://www.hplovecraft.com/

• The Internet Archive, which is stating the obvious:

https://archive.org/

• Jane Austen Variations, the blog of an Austen-inspired writing group:

https://austenvariations.com/about/

• Scribd, which I haven't explored much but seems to have a lot of books, websites, and other texts logged:

https://www.scribd.com/

Artifacts

Here are PDFs of some documents I've scanned from Dr. Nelson's collection ("A Chronology of Women...") and from UMD's Special Collections (everything else):