Illustrated Poetry in Belgravia: An Exploration in Pedagogy and Collaborative Research

Abstract

Using our own partnership as a case study, this essay suggests new opportunities for collaborative research with students in periodical studies. We discuss the history of collaboration in periodicals pedagogy before turning to two self-reflective pieces (one from the faculty-instructor perspective and one from the student view) on introducing undergraduate students to indexing nineteenth-century poetry for the Periodical Poetry Index. Demonstrating the value of collaborative research experiences between faculty and students, we end with a discussion of our findings from indexing illustrated verse in Belgravia: A London Magazine (1866–99).