Documentos de Académico
Documentos de Profesional
Documentos de Cultura
This course will introduce students to the critical skills required for working in the archives
and manuscript repositories. Students will be taught the core methods for reading and
interpreting archival sources, and will be trained in the transcription, editing, analysis, and
publication of primary textual materials. Our textual materials will be generically varied
and chronologically diverse, and we shall move from medieval to contemporary holdings in
Stanford University Library’s Special Collections; we’ll experience the operation and
holdings of other archives at Stanford; and we’ll learn about the theory and practice of
Archival Administration.
Schedule
Week 1: January 9
Read (Canvas): Parts 1-4 of Arlette Farge The Allure of the Archives, trans. Thomas Scott-
Railton and foreword Natalie Zemon Davis (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014), pp.
1-52. Extrapolate the main concepts of, and responses to, the Archive.
Medieval literary and historical texts, including fragments; Early Modern printed books
and newspapers, including periodicals; Nineteeth-century novels, poetry, marginal
annotations, ephemera (autograph books, notebooks, letters, and postcards); Twentieth-
century and contemporary texts, including ephemera and non-literary works; Online
manuscript repositories
Assessment
i) Attendance and Participation: Students are expected to read all the assigned material and
to participate actively in class discussion each week.
ii) Reflections and presentations: Each week, by Monday 5pm, students will post a 300-
word reflection on the week’s readings to Canvas. From weeks 2-9, an individual student
will present a 2-page summary of our discussion and activities from the previous week at
the beginning of the Tuesday class.
iii) Final Paper: 15-20 page research paper, or the equivalent collaborative project, due on
the Monday of Week 11 by 5pm
Course project: a critical edition of a literary or historical text chosen by you from any
period; or the production of a mini-anthology of texts in collaboration with colleagues.
Brief reflection pieces on the process of working with archival or manuscript materials are
to be incorporated into these projects. If the projects are good enough, they may be
published in Stanford Text Technology’s series. Collaborative work is encouraged.