The MJP Teaching Site and Instructional Wiki

Readers of the Magazine Modernisms Blog may be interested in visiting the expanded teaching and research pages we’re developing at the Modernist Journals Project, which include a new instructional wiki. The specific aim of the site is to help teachers and students make better use of the resources that appear in the MJP archive, though we’re also developing materials that generally address modern periodical studies. Among the materials we’re working on, you’ll find:

• an account of the benefits and challenges of using the MJP archive
• guidelines for reading magazines in a scholarly way
• lesson plans for teaching MJP journals in different courses
• general ideas for using modern magazines in various classroom and research projects
• ideas for projects involving specific MJP journals
• an index of notable authors and texts that show up in the MJP archives
• indexes on various topics that create keyword maps of modernism
• a site devoted to the debates and controversies of modernism
• a links page to other modern magazine projects on the internet
• sample course syllabi and assignments using MJP materials
• sample essays by students using MJP materials

Quite a few of the folks who have posted on the MagMods blog have already contributed to one or more of these sections. We look forward to their continued support and welcome contributions by anyone else interested in modern magazines. If you have something to contribute (e.g., a lesson plan, an idea for a research project, etc.),  please write to Mark Gaipa at MJP_project_manager@brown.edu