We wrapped up our service-learning project – helping the librarians reconceive a way to improve the discoverability of our medieval holdings while also improving the…
Author: Cynthia Camp
Assistant Professor of English at UGA and mastermind behind this website and the classes it represents.
Exciting news! Ring the chapel bell! UGA’s Special Collections Library has purchased a new manuscript! This new codex is a lovely little Book of Hours,…
Usually, if you want to look at manuscripts other than the ones your library holds, you need to hop into a car (or onto a…
We’re doing something a little different in this year’s Hargrett Hours class: we’re undertaking a service project for the Special Collections Libraries. One of UGA’s…
One major theme of this semester’s Hargrett Hours course is the intersection of scientific analysis and humanities research. The study of medieval manuscripts is a…
It’s Eclipse Day across the US, and here at UGA we caught 99% coverage (which was, I learned by sitting in Sanford Stadium with 20,000…
Wow – where have the days gone? The first week of the semester has flown by here at UGA and it was good to get…
This is a story. Actually, it’s several different stories. It could be the story of How I Spent My Summer Vacation. It’s in part a…
The semester is wrapping up here. Last finals are being administered today; students are packing up to head home for Christmas break; professors are grading…
[Note: In October, I gave a presentation on the work of this course — a sort of apologia for the course as well as a…