01/05/2026
Ever found yourself happily wandering through a novel, or pausing over a line and thinking, wait… what does that actually mean? If that sounds familiar, Annotating Literature is starting up again and we’d really love to have you join us.
In our student workgroups, we dive into texts together, read closely, discuss ideas and write our own annotations to make sense of tricky or confusing passages. It’s basically like building our own mini scholarly editions (think Arden Shakespeare or Oxford World’s Classics), just in a much more collaborative, low-pressure way.
This semester you can join Annotating Poetry, Annotating Prose (or both!) and along the way you’ll get better at research and writing while also understanding the texts on a deeper level. Also, your annotations won’t just disappear into a folder, as they’ll actually be published on our new website under your name: https://beta.annotating-literature.org/
Whether you need credits or just feel like trying something new, we’d love to have you in our groups. We start May 5 (Poetry, 2–4pm) and May 6 (Prose, 4–6pm) in Brechtbau Room 465. If you have questions, just email [email protected]. We’d be happy to hear from you!
