Posters

These posters represent preliminary findings for projects that emerged over the course of the semester.

Some respond to the texts that the class read over the course of the semester. Others take their point of origin from the selections that Thomas Jefferson made for his Literary Commonplace Book, available online through the Library of Congress. Materials the class viewed at the University of Maryland's Special Collections, especially those from collections associated with Maryland, the digitized Maryland Map Collection, and holdings in the early modern period, provided the inspiration for inquiry for the remainder.

These posters are working drafts. They provide overviews of research questions, possible avenues for investigation, and potentially useful sources.

We developed additional bibliography together here.

• Beatrice Adenigbagbe: "Equiano, Slavery, and the Christian Church"
• Tiye Ialiyah Aton: "The Power of Genre & Perception in Behn & Equiano"
• Ben Beal: "The Path of Songwriting Culture"
• Dionne Croons
• Collin Danz: "Thomas Jefferson & The American University"
• Cristina Granados
• Morgan Marshall-McKinney: "The Influence of Religion in Equiano's Narrative"
• Kala Mitchell: "Black Atlantic Writing in the Eighteenth Century"
• Sam Moyer: "Something is Rotten in the British Empire"
• Mary Murdock: "Constructing Indigenous Narratives in the Chesapeake Bay Region through Cartography"
• Daniella Odutola: "Voices of Black Women Past: Mary Prince, Phillis Wheatley, and Lucy Terry"
• Abigail Olshin: "Julius Caesar Through History"
• Nina Page: "Travel Narratives: The Entrypoint for Colonialism in Literature"
• Shira Panitch: "Commonplace Guide for Students"
• Joshua Senderling: "A Sterne Telling Off"
• Samaira Stewart: "Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz: A Feminist Before Her Time"
• Adrianna Tate: "The Home of the Oprressed: Baltimore & Slavery"
• Glendy Vasquez: "John Milton's Paradise Lost & Jefferson's Commonplace Book"
• Lexie Werner: "Typefaces of Eighteenth Century America"
• Lylah Uttamsingh: "Indigenous Marginalization in Early America"
• Lexi Uhrin: "Bolingbroke and Jefferson"