EWP 060.113.08: Race and Sexuality in Othello

The following resources will be especially useful in helping you obtain information relating to researching your paper for Race and Sexuality in Othello; however, these resources may be of help in other courses throughout your undergraduate career. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact Leigh Anne Palmer, Librarian for English and American Literature, Film Studies, and Writing Seminars.

Library Catalog  ι  Accessing Reserves ι  Databases for Journals  ι  Databases for Historical Materials ι Databases for General Reference ι  Evaluating & Citing Resources

Use the library catalog as a starting point:

Johns Hopkins University Libraries Catalog  (Any location)

Consider using relevant subject headings to narrow your search with pin-point precision. Using any search module (alphabetical, basic keyword, or advanced keyword), type in your subject terms. If you use the alphabetical search module, you can even browse relevant subject area divisions. If you use the keyword search modules, you can search for books by combining subject terms and other keywords. Some useful subject headings include, but are by no means limited to:

Optics—History
Vision—History

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616—Knowledge—Italy—Venice
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616—Knowledge—Africa
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616—Knowledge—Foreign countries

Africa in literature
Colonies in literature
Culture conflict in literature
Exoticism in literature
Imperialism in literature
Mercenary troops
Race in literature
Women and literature—England—History—16th century
Women in literature

Accessing course reserves

Your instructor has placed numerous books that will help you in your research on reserve at the MSE Library. To look at those items, go to the Find Reserves link under Library Services on the MSE Library's homepage.  Remember that reserve items may be checked out for only a very brief period of time and the fines for overdue reserve books are extremely steep.

Databases for finding articles in journals, magazines, and other places:

Humanities Full Text (also part of OmniFile full text mega)  (All US JHU)

Academic Search Premier  (All US JHU)

MLA International Bibliography  (All JHU (incl. International))

Databases for finding historical materials

ARTstor  (All US JHU)

Early English Books Online  (All US JHU)

Literature Online (LION)  (All US JHU)

Other related Databases

Britannica Online  (All US JHU)

Literature Resource Center  (All US JHU)

Oxford English Dictionary.  (All US JHU)

Webster's 3rd new international dictionary  (All US JHU)

Evaluating and citing resources

Can't I just use the web?

Evaluating internet resources

Citing resources

For more general electronic library resources, also see the webpages English and American Literature Databases and Other Databases by Subject. They are accessible from your home computer if you have downloaded Hopkins' VPN client. If you have questions, feel free to contact Leigh Anne Palmer by  email or by telephone at 410-516-8540.