Explore connections between novels, essays, films, and more — organized by genre, theme, and type — and build the reading list your students need.
"A play by Shakespeare and a video from TikTok are rendered on equal terms — their legitimacy derived not from literary pedigree but from the thematic and relational connections they enable."
— Austin Unowitz, English Teaching: Practice & Critique (2025)
Curriculum Assemblage grows out of published research on what happens when text sets move beyond the canonical anchor model — toward relational structures that place every text on equal footing, regardless of its place in the literary canon.
Read the research behind this project →Everything you need to discover and map texts for your classroom, right now.
A WebGL-powered graph of every text in the database. Click any node to see details, connections, grade levels, and content notes. Search, filter, and zoom.
Open the map →Add a new text to the shared map in three steps. Look up books by ISBN for instant title and author fill-in, then tag genre, theme, grade level, and content warnings.
Submit a text →The original Cosma-powered cosmoscope. A force-directed graph with its own layout and navigation — a useful second perspective on the same data.
Open classic view →Every new text is immediately visible to the whole community.
Scan an ISBN or enter details manually. Tag genre, theme, grade range, and any content notes.
Your submission is added to the shared database and the graph updates automatically.
See which texts share themes or genres, discover pairings, and plan units around the links.
Save texts to a personal map and share curated reading lists with your department.
The next phase of Curriculum Assemblage brings personal, sharable curriculum maps for every teacher.
Create a free account to unlock personal features. Your saved texts and maps persist across sessions.
Coming in Phase 2Pin any texts from the shared map into a private collection. Build a map tailored to your exact course.
Coming in Phase 2Export or share a link to your curated text set so colleagues can import it into their own maps.
Coming in Phase 3Attach private teaching notes to any text — rationale, discussion prompts, pairings — visible only to you.
Coming in Phase 3