LibGuides: TC 358: Apocalyptic Narratives, Jennifer Wilks: Home

Welcome!

This library guide was designed by Gina Bastone, the English Librarian, specifically for TC 358: Apocalyptic Narratives, taught by Dr. Jennifer Wilks.

Research Help

Library staff are available to help you with research for this class in the following ways:

Email Gina, your course librarian, if you run into issues finding articles and books. Her email address is g.bastone@austin.utexas.edu
Schedule a research consult via Zoom – get live help from Gina, tailored to your chosen topic(s) for your research papers.
Use the Ask A Librarian Chat Service, available until 9 pm, Sunday-Thursday.

Research Tools for Your Papers

Dr. Wilks and Gina recommend you search the following library databases & research tools to find journal articles, books, and book chapters for your papers. If you have questions about how to search these databases, contact Gina!

MLA International Bibliography
From the Modern Language Association, this collection includes scholarly journals, books, book chapters, and dissertations on literary studies, literary criticism, film studies, and more. Arguably, the MLA is the scholarly research tool for English literature.
Updated ten times per year. Indexes critical materials on literature, criticism, drama, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to citations from over 4,400 journals, series, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Produced by the Modern Language Association.
For help searching the MLA International Bibliography, please see the MLA's video tutorials.
Literature Online (LION) This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive collection of scholarship and reference works for literary studies. Includes the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, a scholarly index to rival the MLA.
Updated regularly. Literature Online is a fully searchable library of over 350,000 full-text works of English and American literature. Includes several literary databases of poetry, plays and fiction as well as general reference works and links to other Internet sites. Coverage of literary criticism includes access to the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, 1920-present (from the Modern Humanities Research Association) and 383 Full-Text Journals (from Literature Online/ProQuest).
Film & Television Literature Index This link opens in a new window
Find scholarship on the entire spectrum of film & television studies, including film theory, analysis, and criticism.
Updated monthly. Covers the entire spectrum of television and film writing. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. Publications include Film Journal International, Journal of British Cinema & Television, Film Criticism, Post Script, Variety, as well as technical publications such as SMPTE. Mirroring the international film & television industries and cultures, FTLI also includes publications such as Cahiers du Cinema, Filmihullu, SegnoCinema, and Kinetoscopio.

UT Library Catalog
Search the UT Libraries' collections of print books, ebooks, and films. You can search for scholarly books about the texts you are reading in class and using for your papers.

Humanities Librarian

Gina Bastone

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Contact:

g.bastone@austin.utexas.edu
PCL 2.312X

Subjects: Comparative Literature, Creative Writing, Disability Studies, English Literature, LGBTQ Studies, Rhetoric, Women's and Gender Studies

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