Outside Links
The links on this page will connect you to language and literature and writing resources that are maintained outside the Department of Language & Literature at Clayton State University.
The following links are topics in this document:
- Clayton State University
- Cultural Studies
- Drama
- Film & Video
- Fine Arts
- Foreign Languages
- Fiction & Poetry
- University System of Georgia
- Humanities Indices
- Regents' Test
- Research & Documentation
Clayton State University
Making Web Pages
This site, maintained by the Learning Center, offers several useful how-to pages, including step-by-step directions for students who wish to publish Web pages.
Center for Academic Success
The Center offers help with writing and communications instruction. It also houses a Student Support Software Services and the Testing Center.
The Library
The Clayton State University Library maintains a number of valuable electronic resources, including the Interlibrary Loan Request Forms.
Student and Enrollment Services
Reached through office D-223 in the Student Center Building, this office can direct you to sources of academic, career, and personal counseling, as well as to information about financial aid and student organizations and activities.
Cultural Studies
American Studies Crossroads Project
A comprehensive collection of pedagogical, scholarly, and institutional information for the international American Studies community, along with information about the site's sponsor, the American Studies Association.
Library of Congress American Memory Project
More than thirty collections of historical photos and prints, documents, motion pictures, maps, and sound recordings are now available through the National Digital Library.
The Spoon Collective
The Collective, housed at the University of Virginia, maintains dozens of mailing lists devoted to various branches of critical theory.
Voice of the Shuttle Cultural Studies page
An extensive list of web resources for cultural studies workers is available at this humanities-focused site in California.
Drama
Atlanta Coalition of Theaters
The nonprofit Coalition serves Atlanta 90 performing arts companies.
Performance Technology Research Laboratory
PTRL is the performing arts section of Georgia Tech's School of Literature Communication and Culture.
Shakespeare's Globe Theater
This UK site provides information about the reconstruction of the Globe and an archive on performances at Shakespeare's original theater.
Fine Arts
High Museum of Art
Atlanta's Woodruff Arts Center--including the High, the Alliance Theater, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and the Atlanta College of Art--maintains a small Web presence.
WebMusuem, Paris
One of the best collections of art reproductions on the Web, the WebMuseum is now mirrored on servers around the world.
Yahoo! Museums, Galleries, and Centers Index
The search engine maintains this global listing, along with a short list of Atlanta-area museums.
Foreign Languages
Newspapers.com
This site offers links to hundreds of national and international newspapers, including dozens in languages other than English.
Voice of America Streaming Server
The VoA broadcasts news of the United States in languages other than English.
Yahoo! Language Education Links
The Web search engine maintains this list.
Fiction & Poetry
The Academy of American Poets
This site provides a comprehensive resource devoted to U.S. poets and their work.
The E Server
Maintained by University of Washington, this is a collection of writings on a wide variety of humanistic and literary topics.
Electronic Text Center
The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia maintains an online archive of thousands of SGML-encoded electronic texts, many of which are publicly available.
Project Gutenberg
The Project has converted more than 1,000 paper documents into etexts, including hundreds of (public domain) novels, plays, books of poetry, and other literature.
The Victorian Web
An extraordinary resource begun by George Landow at Brown University.
Voices from the Gaps
Devoted to women writers of color, this instructional resource is housed in the English department at the University of Minnesota. It includes an annotated listing of related sites around the world.
William Faulkner on the Web
This site maintained by the University of Mississippi is one of the Web's best sources of information about the novelist.
Women Writers Project
"The mission of the Brown University Women Writers Project is to create, develop, and make accessible a state-of-the-art electronic textbase of women's writing in English before 1830."
Yahoo! Electronic Literature Collections
The search engine maintains a list of thousands of digitized classics, all available to read or download through the Web.
University System of Georgia
Academic Services and Distance Learning
Maintained by Georgia's Office of Information and Instructional Technology, this site supports the adoption of instructional technology by USG faculty and staff.
GALILEO
GALILEO stands for GeorgiA LIbrary LEarning Online. A World Wide Web-based database server, GALILEO offers access for participating institutions to over 100 databases indexing thousands of periodicals and scholarly journals. Over 2000 journal titles are provided in full text. Other resources include an encyclopedia, business directories, and government publications.
Regents' Test
Since 1972, passing both the essay and reading comprehension parts of the Georgia Regents' Test has been a requirement for students receiving transfer associate or baccalaureate degrees from the 34 institutions of the University System. These pages offer descriptions and practice tests.
Humanities Indices
Voice of the Shuttle
This large, well-established, and frequently updated list of resources for humanities research is maintained by the University of California in Santa Barbara.
Multi-Media and Digital Narrative
Hyperizons
This is an extensive collection of links to hypertextual fiction and theory compiled by Michael Shumate, a graduate student at Duke who has completed a master's thesis on the subject.
Resources for Web-based Fiction Writers
Janet H. Murray, MIT professor and author of Hamlet on the Holodeck, maintains this index for students in her "Non-linear and Interactive Narrative" class.
Research & Documentation
Research and Documentation Online
Bedford-St. Martin's, publisher of A Writer's Reference by Diane Hacker, maintains a comprehensive list of online resources for writers in the Humanities.