Covering the Chaos

Home page for RANDY BASS, English Department (Georgetown University); Created and maintained out of the Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies (CEPACS)at Georgetown University. Send inquiries to rbass@guvax.georgetown.edu

Maps to the Chaos...

  • Tangled Webs...
    Web sites I have designed or am weaving with others.
  • What We Formerly Called Authorship...
    My net-related authoring projects (scholarly and otherwise).
  • Ships Afloat...
    Projects I'm seriously involved with that are actually happening.
  • Those Who Can't, Link...
    Courses that I teach in which we are using dynamic syllabi or other kinds of integrative platforms on the World Wide Web.
  • A Hypertext Exhibition...
    A text and image exhibition on "Violence and the Moral Imagination in 19th-Century America", comprised of projects developed by students out of "19th-Century American Literature: Representations of Violence and Crisis" (ENGL 221).
  • Other Internet Resources
    Other Internet locations with materials related to my interests.
  • Bibliographies
    Bibliographies of electronic materials, Web locations, and (yes!) print materials on subjects that related to teaching and projects.

    • Tangled Webs...

  • The Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literatures: resources for teachers of the literatures of the United States. It is the complementary site to T-AMLIT ("Teaching the American Literatures" Discussion List"). Resources include essays on teaching the American literatures, syllabi and pedagogical materials, links to electronic texts and integrative platforms in the American literatures, and a variety of indexes and gateways to the logs of T-AMLIT.
  • The American Studies Electronic Crossroads (ASEC) : the World Wide Web site for the American Studies Crossroads Project. ASEC is being designed as a Virtual Institute for the international American Studies community; it will contain a comprehensive array of scholarly, educational, reference, and program information on American Studies worldwide. CAUTION: This site is in the early demo stages.
  • American Studies @ Georgetown University: home page for the Georgetown American Studies program, with syllabi and other materials, as well as links to electronic/learning projects conducted within the rubric of the American Studies core curriculum.
  • Making Knowledge in the Electronic Age: a web site connected with a joint authoring project between Randy Bass (Georgetown), Trent Batson (Gallaudet University) and Steve Gilbert (American Association for Higher Education), studying the impact of new technologies on the epistemology of the disciplines in higher education; related to the "Making Knowledge" Demonstration and Tutorial Page, created and maintained by Randy Bass. This site is also related to a Web site complementing a pre-conference workshop for the 1995 Computers and Writing Conference (El Paso; May 22-24, 1995), focusing on Building Authentic Communities in Virtual Spaces (the brainchild of Judy Williamson, George Mason University).

    • What We Formerly Called Authorship...
  • Remapping the Territory: New Technologies and American Culture Studies
  • Covering the Chaos: Documentary Narrative and Social Crisis in 19th-Century America [Including links to projects created by students in ENGL 221: 19th Century American Literature -- Violence and Crisis.]
  • Making Knowledge in the Electronic Age (with Trent Batson, Gallaudet University; Steve Gilbert, American Association for Higher Education)
  • The Canon, The Computer, and the Pedagogic Imaginary (from the Heath Anthology Newsletter)

    • Ships Afloat...
  • The Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies at Georgetown University (soon to be in our new home: the CEPACS Development Lab, New North 320).
  • The American Studies Crossroads Project: an international Internet and curriculum innovation project, sponsored by the American Studies Association.
  • The Teaching, Learning and Technology Roundtable at Georgetown University: a University-wide effort to integrate information technologies into the mainstream of the academic enterprise at Georgetown.
  • Project FUTURE (Faculty Use of Technology: Understanding Roles and Evaluation) : a national Task Group for the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Roundtable of the American Association for Higher Education program.

    • Those Who Can't, Link...
  • Literature & Writing Workshop (Borders of American Culture: Expression & Identity in the United States)(ENGL 014)
  • 19th-Century American Literature: Violence and Crisis (ENGL 221)
  • American Literature: Alternative Frontiers (ENGL 214)
  • American Civilization I (AmSt 203)

    • A Hypertext Exhibition

  • Violence and the Moral Imagination in America:
    19th-Century Representations of Violence and Crisis
    Based on projects by students in 19th-Century American Literature: Violence and Crisis (ENGL 221).
  • Abstracts of the Student Projects

    • Other Internet Collections Related to Violence and Crisis

    Title image is a detail from "Judgement Day, Annhilation" by Belinda di Leo (part II of the exhibit Ancestry:Religion, Death and Community in Appalachia).

    Bibliographies and Other Internet Resources
    For further Information contact:
    Randy Bass
    Director, Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies
    Georgetown University
    Washington, D.C. 20057
    tamlit@gusun.georgetown.edu