t the brink of the new millennium, the UCSB English Department has founded the Early Modern Center to enhance the study of the past by embracing the technologies of the future. The Center is designed to mobilize the department's strength in sixteenth-through eighteenth-century studies, maintained by eight faculty in the early modern field, along with seven affiliated faculty. The Center provides these faculty and their students with a specialized seminar area, resource library, and networked computers: a space designed to promote collaborative research and teaching. We are developing new ways to integrate advanced relational databases into courses and research, creating, for instance, such handy online tools as the Early Modern Bookshelf. State-of-the-art computing equipment is supported by the latest database resources in the field, including the Early English Books Online, consisting of all extant books published in English from 1475-1800, and and the Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), 1701-1800. An annual theme guides our research energies from the trivial, such as the images appearing on our Website, to the consequential: annual conferences featuring the field's most renowned scholars. The Center's cohesive use of space and of faculty and student energies, its access to advanced electronic materials, and its integrated annual themed programs create the most sophisticated matrix for early modern studies available today. |
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Original Proposal to Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, UCSB, 1999
Instructional Improvement Proposal, UCSB, 2001-2002
Instructional Improvement Proposal, UCSB, 2003-2004
Instructional Improvement Proposal, UCSB, 2004-2005
Instructional Improvement Proposal, UCSB, 2005-2006
UCHRI Grant Proposal, 2005-2006
NEH1: Reference Materials Grant Proposal, 2005 (funded for 2006-2008)
NEH2: Collections and Resources Grant Proposal, 2007 (funded for 2008-2010)
