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English Department Homepages
Worldwide -- a hyperlink list of over 300 English Department
homepages.
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Beyond
the MLA Handbook
: a Guide to documenting Electronic Sources on the Internet -- how
to cite what you find on your travels.
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The Copyright
Clearance Center
contact to get clearance to legally photocopy copyrighted materials.
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Web-Cite
: an index of online articles, a very useful new resource for
literary studies on the Web, indexes articles that have been
featured in online journals or which scholars have put online,
ranging across the field of English studies, includes information
about the articles, links to them, and multiple search mechanisms to
find what your looking for. This site promises to become exceedingly
useful as it grows.
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The Chronicle of
Higher Education
includes much of the same information on-line as in their print
edition, including the job offerings, for those of us hopeful of
(hah) someday actually getting a real paid position in Academe. If
your internationally-minded, the
The Times Higher
Education Supplement
(U.K.) also provides valuable information.
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EBR
: The Electronic Book Review at ALTX is one of the most interesting
sites of academic discourse on the net, a space where many of the
"cutting edge" luminaries in English Studies come to spar.
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The Academy of American
Poets
site, including a "listening booth" chock-full of
RealAudio recordings of famous American Poets reading their work.
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CELJ
: The Council of Editors of Learned Journals.
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A
Lexicon of the Humanities
: is a clever idea -- an index of all (well, some) of the
convoluted, discombobulated, esoteric jargon we humanities types use
to make the unbelievably simple sound infinitely complex.
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A brief
History of English Studies page
featuring a useful
Bibiliography
.
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The American Council of
Learned Societies
, a federation of 58 national learned societies in the humanities
and social sciences. Pages contain descriptions and contact
information for member societies.
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PCA/ACA
Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association.
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Scholarly Societies Project
-- an Index of Scholarly Societies with internet resources,
including a Literature Societies page -- at the University of
Waterloo.
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The WWW Virtual
Library Journals Index
offers links to various professional academic journals.
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The Electronic Newsstand
offers current articles from newpapers, magazines, and newspapers on
a searchable database.
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The AAUP Index of Journals for Literature
, an index of information on many different professional literature
journals.
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Mediations
: The Journal of the Marxist Literary Group.
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Project Muse
at Johns Hopkins is one the most developed scholarly journal project
on the web, home of some 40 full text editions of academic journals
but (of course) there's a catch -- you need to subscribe to the
journal to access the full text.
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Electronic
Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities
: a page devoted to an interesting development for the future of
humanities scholarship -- in 1997, Virginia Tech will require all
Ph.D. candidates to submit their dissertations in electronic,
browsable format.
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Bonfire
of Liberties
is an interactive history of censorship in the Humanities.