PHD Stanford University
BA Bryn Mawr College
CONTACT
jillian.hess@bcc.cuny.edu
Colston 727 & 1/2
COURSES
ENG 112: Composition II: Writing and Rhetoric
jillian Hess
Jillian Hess specializes in histories of note-taking. Most of her academic work has focused on 19th-century commonplace books, which are personal collections of quotations. Recently, she's broadened her focus to explore how history's most brilliant thinkers have organized their notes.
areas
History of Note-Taking, History of the Book, Romantic and Victorian Literature
BOOK
How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information: Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums. Oxford UP, 2022.