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

ENG 157: Introduction to Women’s Literature

FYS 11: First Year Seminar

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.

substack

https://jillianhess.substack.com/