Bill Kemp's Web Site

 

Welcome. I 'm a professor of English at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where I teach general literature courses, writing, Shakespeare, and the British novel, My current research interest is English book culture during the Renaissance. I'm also the department chair.

This page exists first to provide students with ready access to materials I frequently use in my courses.

It's also a place to store digitized images, mostly medieval and renaissance, I've been accumulating for several years; keep links to interesting web sites; and make available material developed by students in various courses.

COURSE MATERIALS

Click on the jewel to visit the course site.

Austen Seminar

ENGL 295 : Introduction to Literary Study

Typical Syllabus

"Texts and Readers"

an essay introducing a few basic concepts of literary theory illustrated chiefly with Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode"; heavily indebted to Robert Scholes' Textual Power

 ENGL 307 The Writing Process

ENGL 333: The British Novel to 1945

A few links to sites concerning the novelists included in the course: DeFoe, Fielding, Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Dickens, Eliot, Conrad, and Joyce.

ENGL 319, 320: Shakespeare

Syllabus

319

320

Play Outlines

Study Questions

Assignment Handouts

Bibliography

Images

ENGL 381, Survey of British Literature to 1800

 

A GALLERY OF IMAGES

Gallery Index

The Jane Austen Scrapbook

The Shakespeare Scrapbook

 A Map of the United Kingdom

 

THE STAR WARS PROJECT

In spring 1996, my seminar on The English Epic from Spenser to Fielding decided to do a group project on George Lucas' Star Wars trilogy instead of separate papers on nineteenth and twentieth century attempts to create forms equivalent to the traditional epic. Their efforts produced a series of complementary but not tightly coordinated essays. In the fall of 1996 two of the students, Cheryl Duckworth and Christine Smith, integrated the original essays into a coherent anthology and prepared web pages to make the essays generally available. Click on the jewel to reach their web pages.

 

 

STRANDED 1997

In the fall of 1997 Gardner Campbell and I taught paralllel sections of Writing Workshop in which the students focused on popular music. We read Griel Marcus' Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island. Each student picked one CD to take to a new desert island and wrote a series of essays exploring and explaining hir choice. Click on the jewel to reach their final essays. In later years other classes have done the same project, so we've got over a hundred throughtful essays about music on-line.

DESIGNING WEB PAGES

For a few suggestions on designing web pages that are attractive, easy to read, and load quickly click on the jewel below.The suggestions include links to free stuff.

INTERESTING LINKS

Shakespeare on the Web

Renaissance on the Web

British Novelists on the Web

Literary Theory on the Web

Book Culture on the Web

 

 

I assembled these pages using Adobe Photoshop, Aridi Web Bits, Claris Home Page, Macromedia Dreamweaver 2, Macromedia Fireworks 2, and the resources of the World Wide Web. The background and graphics on this page are from Moyra's Web Jewels. Click on on the plaque below to visit her web site.

 

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URL: http://www1.mwc.edu/~wkemp/index.html

Created: January 13, 1998; Redesigned August 10, 1998; latest update August 27, 2001.

Send Comments/Questions to: wkemp@mwc.edu