John Casey is Lecturer in English
at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
His research focuses on the legacy of the United States Civil War and representations
of veterans in American culture. He has
published essays on these topics in American
Literary Realism and Civil War
History and has a book forthcoming in the spring of 2015 titled New Men: Reconstructing the Image of the
Veteran in Late Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture (Fordham
University Press).
Scholars in the fields of
American and British literature are experiencing significant changes to the
ways in which they research and teach their subject areas. My own research would have been substantially
more difficult were it not for the growing digital archive of newspapers and
other periodicals from the nineteenth-century United States that helped open a
window onto the cultural moment examined in my book. These same digital resources have begun to
alter the way I teach students in the classroom. Increasingly our text is a hypertext with
interactive components that not only explain the words on the page but bring
the text to life. Writing assignments
have also begun to migrate online, forcing me to consider the next phase in the
life of the college literature essay.
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