A professor and a curator at the University of Utah have created a Web site devoted to European dance, theater, and visual arts from 1600 to 1850. Called Dramatis Personae Archive, the site includes rare digitized books, maps, newspapers, and journals from the university’s J. Willard Marriott Library. The Web site grew out of a French-theater course taught by Christine A. Jones, a languages and literature professor. She teamed with Luise Poulton, a curator at the library, so her students could be exposed to rare dance books. Students in the class each posted to the Web site a summary on a book.
The course received an innovation award this year from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. —Andrea L. Foster
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