Crossing Borders: An Interdisciplinary Course in the "Enlightenment"

• Main Authors: Carol White, Kathryn P. Russell
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Aphra Behn Society 2013-11-01
• Series: ABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830
• Subjects: Enlightenment; Franklin; Voltaire; Diderot; Helen Maria Williams; Burke
• Online Access: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol3/iss2/2

In this essay, we present a twofold version of the first team-taught course on the eighteenth century designed by faculty at Clayton State University who plan to develop and teach this course again in the near future. We hope that our explanation of the original course and our projected future version of the course will be useful to scholars who teach in the eighteenth century, as well as to specialists in other historical periods who wish to plan revisions of courses to make them more reflective of current scholarship in gender studies. Authors taught in this course include Benjamin Franklin, Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Helen Maria Williams, and others.