This collection of original essays discusses the implications of the new media for the creation, delivery and assessment of English studies. Strategies by which digital technologies can serve professional, scholarly and pedagogical needs in a completely new way are explored in the context of the role and mission of humanities in the electronic age.

'The New English Series is a welcome and timely contribution to the changing canon, curriculum, and classroom practice of English in higher education. Imaginatively conceived and professionally edited, the series will be required reading for instructors in English studies worldwide.' - Professor Elaine Showalter, Professor Emerita of English, Princeton University, USA, and Author of Teaching Literature

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BRYAN ALEXANDER National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, Middlebury College, Vermont, USA ANDREW BOOTH Director, Flexible Learning Development Unit, Professor of On-Line Learning in the School of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Leeds, UK LISA BOTSHON Associate Professor, University of Maine, Augusta, USA DOROTHEA FISCHER-HORNUNG Lecturer, University of Heidelberg, Germany WOLFGANG HOLTKAMP Lecturer, University of Stuttgart, Germany CHRISTOPHER KELTY Assistant Professor, Rice University, Texas, USA STUART LEE Head of the Learning Technologies Group, Oxford University, UK DAVID LINDLEY Professor, University of Leeds, UK LEON LITVACK Reader, Queen's University Belfast, UK ALAN LIU Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA JIM O'LOUGHLIN Assistant Professor, University of North Iowa, USA OLIVER PICKERING Deputy Head of Special Collections, Leeds University Library, UK ERIC RABKIN Professor, University of Michigan, USA JEFF RICE Assistant Professor of English, Wayne State University, USA DUCO VAN OOSTRUM Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield, UK

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List of Figures Series Preface (Series Editor) Notes on Contributors Glossary Introduction: From Literacy to e-Literacy; M.Hanrahan & D.Madsen Chronology of Communication Technologies and Media PART ONE: PROFESSIONAL, INSTITUTIONAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS The Humanities: A Technical Profession; A.Liu A Threat to Professional Identity?: The Resistance to Computer-Mediated Teaching; B.Alexander Intellectual Property and the Humanities; C.Kelty PART TWO: A NEW ENGLISH? THEORY AND PRACTICE Putting IT into the English Syllabus: A Case of Square Pegs and Round Holes?; S.Lee A Technology of Our Own: The Place of Computers and the Case of the Small Press; J.O'Loughlin Postcolonial Pedagogical Thresholds: The Imperial Archive and Postgraduate Web Design; L.Litvak PART THREE: VIRTUAL TEACHING AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS All Aboard Blackboard; L.Botshon American Cultural Studies and E-Teaching Internationally; D.Fischer-Hornung & W.Holtkamp Transatlantic Exchanges: Mediating Student Learning Through e-Discussions; D.Van Oostrum PART FOUR: HYPERMEDIA: THEORY AND PRACTICE Audience, Purpose, and Medium: How Digital Media Extend Humanities Education; E.Rabkin The Rhetoric of New Media: Teaching a Rhetoric of Hypertext; J.Rice Learning Secretary Hand: An Interactive Tutorial; A.Booth , D.Lindley & O.Pickering Appendix: Key Individuals Works Cited Further Reading Index