{"id":16002,"date":"2019-04-14T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/?p=16002"},"modified":"2019-04-11T16:13:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T20:13:38","slug":"mapping-literature-and-family-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2019\/04\/14\/mapping-literature-and-family-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Literature (and Family History)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Dino Ljubijankic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes, you need to take your Senior Seminar, ENG 444. You\u2019re an English major and if you want to graduate, you gotta do it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I know that the amount of reading, writing, and research required in these courses is a little daunting.\u00a0 But maybe you\u2019re interested in an English class that\u2019s a bit more than reading, writing, and research anyway?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maybe you also want something visual, maybe something historical, or even political? Maybe you want to study the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">where <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">just as much as the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">who <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">or <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">what. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lucky for you, this hypothetical course I\u2019m describing is an actual course!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prof. Molly Ferguson will be teaching ENG 444 &#8220;Mapping Literature&#8221; in Fall 2019, a course dedicated to the literary art of reading and creating maps. If you\u2019re an English major like myself, you see the word \u2018map\u2019 and react like a vampire in sunlight. If you can stop your flesh from combusting for two seconds, let me tell you why you\u2019re wrong to think that way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16010\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16010\" class=\"wp-image-16010 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/04\/10210204\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-10-at-9.00.02-PM-1024x332.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/04\/10210204\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-10-at-9.00.02-PM-1024x332.png 1024w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/04\/10210204\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-10-at-9.00.02-PM-300x97.png 300w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/04\/10210204\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-10-at-9.00.02-PM-768x249.png 768w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/04\/10210204\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-10-at-9.00.02-PM-1000x324.png 1000w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/04\/10210204\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-10-at-9.00.02-PM-1233x400.png 1233w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/04\/10210204\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-10-at-9.00.02-PM.png 1486w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dino presenting his story map at the course showcase, December 2018<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Here&#8217;s what I learned in Fall 2018 when I took &#8220;Mapping Literature&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #800000\"><strong>Maps are fun!<\/strong> <\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ve been conditioned to only use maps when I\u2019m driving to a new location and need to GPS on the way. So maybe, in a Pavlovian sense, I\u2019ve associated maps with the sound of my voice when I yell at someone tailgating my car. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In that conditioning, however, I lost the joy I used to get when I opened a history textbook or dictionary to a brightly colored world map. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Throughout the course, Prof. Ferguson introduced a myriad of map-analyzing skills that allowed the class to find a new appreciation for the literary and linguistic techniques required in crafting a map. It was a way of looking at the location of a story as a type of character.\u00a0 That character influences the plot just as much as the protagonists and antagonists.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>The concept of fictional maps<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the first time in my collegiate education, we were shown maps of places that you <em>couldn\u2019t<\/em> go to. The premiere example was from the first installment of Ursula Le Guin\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earthsea <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">book series. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Up to this point, map-making seemed like a rigid process that required immense amounts of fact-checking. But, the fictional map concept allows for a lot of freedom for the writer, especially writers favoring creative, fantastical, or sci-fi stories. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additionally, I learned fictional maps demand research, too. It&#8217;s difficult to make a magical map without some sort of grounded framework.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Hands-on, visual creativity<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<div id=\"attachment_16009\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16009\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16009\" src=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/04\/10205600\/IMG_8069-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/04\/10205600\/IMG_8069-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/04\/10205600\/IMG_8069-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/04\/10205600\/IMG_8069-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/04\/10205600\/IMG_8069-1000x750.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/04\/10205600\/IMG_8069-533x400.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16009\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the course showcase: Thom Pensinger, Keli MacDonald, and Bonnie Prindle.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By the end of the semester, we all created \u2018story-maps\u2019 that were tied to creative or research papers that we wrote. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although they had to tie to some kind of text that we\u2019d examined in the course, it still allowed for much more artistic opportunities than I would\u2019ve imagined prior to taking the class. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/bsumaps.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/MapSeries\/index.html?appid=afa7e2c4d91447cf9c05c58801d596bc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">some of the amazing maps<\/a> that my class created. Mine is number 5.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>The chance to learn about yourself\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This last point matters the most to me. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the course, we read Sara Novic\u2019s book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Girl at War<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a story about a young woman who escaped the civil war in Yugoslavia. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coincidentally enough, my parents had to do something similar in the early-to-mid 90s. For my final project of the semester, I interviewed my mom. During the interview, I used the text from class as a basis for her to describe our family\u2019s emigration from war-time Bosnia. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I learned new things I hadn\u2019t known prior, and genuinely found new respect for my family. I wasn\u2019t alive at the time, so my mother\u2019s storytelling is the only thing I have of my family\u2019s experience. And I wouldn\u2019t have gotten such nuanced, detailed answers if it wasn\u2019t for the \u2018story-map\u2019 assignment that was inspiring my questions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, to be a momma\u2019s boy, the course made me appreciate my mom in a new way too. <\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Take the class!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m not going to promise that you\u2019ll find new appreciation of your family if you take this course, but I will say that there\u2019s something for everyone. It\u2019s a unique class subject taught by a great professor. The readings are multicultural and the maps range from simple to beautiful. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As I write this, ENG 444-3 for Fall 2019 with Prof. Molly Ferguson has just three seats left in. 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