Bowdoin & The Book seeks to elevate conversations about the “book,” broadly defined to extend from oral traditions to manuscripts, printed books, and digital media, to serve as the conduit for an exploration of the intersections of history, technology, culture, language, literature, economics, art, representation, and more. By positioning Bowdoin College Library’s George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives as a site of encounter and to situate collections-based study and research within the rich landscape of Maine-based book artists, craftspeople, and booksellers–we hope this series and related efforts will provide research and pedagogical support to effectively engage in high-impact learning across disciplines and co-curricular programs, promote discursive and creative thinking, confront a diversity of perspectives, and acquire hands-on and field work experience.
Spring 2022 Faculty/Staff Workshop
It’s one thing to think about what feminist bibliography might do, it’s another thing to put it into practice. In this workshop, with Dr. Sarah Werner we used items from Bowdoin collections to think through how bibliography and feminist theory can be incorporated into book history and textual studies. We did some hands-on exercises to see how they can be adapted for the classroom, thought through feminist pedagogical strategies, and collaboratively generated a set of tools to use in teaching. And, of course, because we’ll be talking about teaching, we also be strengthened our own understanding of the issues at stake in creating a feminist bibliographical practice.