Your Course Librarian
Getting Started and Quicklinks
Welcome! I am looking forward to supporting you with your research.
Below are some quick links to help you get started with your research and information about the content on this guide. Please get in touch if you have any questions!
- Library SearchSearch here for e-books, print materials, and other resources at the library
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowAccess a wide variety of journal articles in the humanities and other disciplines. Note: You may not be able to access the most current 2–7 years of certain journals—but many of these recent publications are found in Project MUSE.
- English Literature Research GuideThis is a general overview of the resources available in the subject area of English literature at Emory Libraries.
Do you have more questions? Get in touch with your course librarian, Hannah Griggs, if you have questions or if you'd like to set up an appointment to discuss your research assignment in more detail.
Course-Specific Resources
- Ecology in Literature, from Oxford BibliographiesA bibliography of ecocriticism and ecology in literature, from Oxford Bibliographies
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowIndexes critical materials on literature, criticism, drama, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Coverage includes journals, series, essay collections, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings, and other materials. Produced by the Modern Language Association.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowIncludes the most recently published output of many major scholarly journals. Covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, cultural studies, education, political science, and more.
- ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new windowContains over 810,000 ebooks and 1,350 imprints from more than 650 publishers.
The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism by ISBN: 9780199742929Publication Date: 2014-08-05The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism provides a broad survey of the longstanding relationship between literature and the environment.
Oxford Bibliography in EcologyISBN: 9780199830060For Oxford Bibliographies in Ecology, topics from all the relevant areas have been selected; these include articles on autoecology, population, community, and ecosystem ecology, the main biomes of the world, as well as articles related to the synthesis of ecology with other disciplines including human ecology, agroecology, and chemical ecology, for example.
Writing and Writing Center Resources
- Handout on Writing SummariesEmory Writing Center resource on strategies for writing effective summaries of fiction and non-fiction texts.
- Handout on Writing a ThesisEmory Writing Center resource on strategies for writing the thesis. Also helpful when writing annotations, which require a snapshot of the article's main argument(s).