Course Collaborations

The Lyon Archive

Map of Victorian London with points of interest from the Soundscape Map of The Lyon Archive.
Map of Victorian London with points of interest from the Soundscape Map of The Lyon Archive.

The Lyon Archive is a collaborative project between UO Professor Heidi Kaufman, her students, and members of the Anglo-Jewish Lyon family, which has members living in Jamaica, England, Australia and the U.S. As avid fiction writers, editors, diarists, scholars, philanthropists, and scholars, they have created and gathered a multitude of documents, which are now showcased in the Lyon Archive. These historical artifacts offer the public a glimpse into fragmentary life narratives through maps, movies, sounds, and visual objects. The archive also contains contemporary responses to these artifacts in the form of multimedia projects by students, scholars, and descendants of the Lyon family. As a companion piece to The East End Digital Library and Professor Kaufman’s book Strangers in the Archive, the Lyon Archive illuminates previously neglected aspects of Victorian London life.

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The Female American Digital Edition

Book cover: The Female American; or, the Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield. London, 1767.
Title page of The Female American, reproduced courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library.

The Female American is a thrilling work from the 18th century that challenges questions of authorship, race, gender and identity. Students in Prof. Mattie Burkert’s graduate seminar “Science, Colonialism, and Empire” created a digital edition of the text – a process that involved transcriptions, corrections, markups and the addition of editorial comments. Undergraduates in ENG 448: Eighteenth-Century Literature later wrote additional annotations, including more contexts and references to help students navigate the 250-year-old novel. Separately, a smaller group of graduate students used the free audiobook platform “LibriVox” to publish an audiobook of The Female American: Or, the Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield. Having both the digital edition as well as the audiobook considerably increases the availability and reach of The Female American as an Open Educational Resource.

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Listen to the free audiobook

 


Environmental Justice Research Repository

Martin Luther King Jr Park Needs Your Help to Plant Bulbs and Build a Climbing Wall
Community announcement from a 1984 issue of the Far West Window Newsletter. Reproduced from the collections of Lane County History Museum Archives.

Students in English 250 and English 470 created a collection of digitized archival materials in collaboration with the nonprofit organization Beyond Toxics. With guidance from Digital Scholarship Librarian Kate Thornhill, students catalogued primary sources related to environmental racism and activism in the Eugene-Springfield community. The student-curated repository houses over 100 other digitized archival materials, and it has been used by local nonprofit groups in successful legislative and advocacy campaigns.

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