Dr. Shannon Finck | Georgia State University

OUROBOROS: A Journal of the Publishing Industry’s Innovations and Reinventions

Students in my Fall 2024 ENGL 3140: Editing for Publication class spent the semester brushing up on their editing skills while reading Dan Sinykin’s Big Fiction, a history of literary publishing and conglomeration in the US. Meanwhile, they put their skills and knowledge to work, creating an online journal that reflects their own interests in…

Review of Jennifer Spitzer’s Secret Sharers (Modernism/modernity)

Read it here: 10.1353/mod.2024.a935455

Student Researchers in the Archives (Honors ENGL 1103, Georgia State University Special Collections, 2023-2024)

ENGL 4500: English Internship

Course Description The GSU English Department’s Internship Program helps students make professional connections, gain valuable and diverse work experiences, and develop career skills related to the study of English. Your internship might take place at a business, a school, a foundation/non-profit, or a government agency under the mentorship of a supervisor. Duties may include assisting…

ENGL 3140: Editing for Publication

Course Description This course considers the roles of editors in a variety of contexts, with the aim of developing our understanding of what editors do and how they do it. We’ll edit our own writing as well as the writing of our classmates, study style guides and house styles, and immerse ourselves in the processes…

Lit Que(e)ries: A Journal

Students in my Spring 2024 LGBTQ+ Literature class (ENGL 3695/WGSS 3910) created, edited, and published their own open-access journal with essays organized into thematic clusters (modeling their work on ASAP/J, Post45 Contemporaries, etc.). This was my first time doing a collaborative project at this scale with students, and the final product reflects the beautiful, ambitious,…

ENGL 3695/ WGSS 3910: LGBTQ+ Lit

Course Description This course centers literature written by LGBTQ+authors and texts addressing queer identities and experiences. As we read contemporary literary works by living LGBTQ+ writers, we will consider some of the ideas and issues that shape queer lived experience, cultural and artistic production, visibility and equity, and the politics and ethics of representation. Approaching…

Environmental Short Films (ENGL 1102, Georgia State University, Fall 2023)

Over the course of this semester, my ENGL 1103 students studied examples of climate storytelling, both fictional and nonfictional, in order to consider the question of whether and how narrative can intervene in or shape serious conversations about climate change and help us envision the future. The objective of the short film assignment was to…

Climate Interviews (ENGL 1102, Georgia State University, Fall 2023)

Now that the effects of anthropogenic climate change are becoming more widely apparent, writers and scholars have emphasized the importance of keeping a record of planetary change as it unfolds. Because climate and environmental concerns differ from place to place, firsthand accounts comprise an important part of this record. In this class, students paid careful…

A Work(place) in Progress: A Podcast by ENGL 1103 Students

The final assignment in Honors ENGL 1103: Labor Histories & the Future of Work asked students to consider as a class what labor-related events, innovations, and ideas might bring people together as a community of listeners, and to pitch a podcast series addressing those themes and topics. Working in teams of two and three, students…