Explore connections between novels, essays, films, and more — organized by genre, theme, and type — and build a rhizomatic curriculum!
"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.
A graph of every text in the database. Click any node to see details, connections, grade levels, and content notes.
Open the map →Save texts from the public map into your personal curriculum workspace. Your map shows only your chosen texts and the connections between them.
Open my 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 cosmoscope discussed in the article (Unowitz, 2025). A force-directed graph with its own layout and navigation. Deprecated, but useful to understand how the project has evolved.
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 your personal map and build a curated reading list tailored to your exact course.
The next phase of Curriculum Assemblage brings collaborative and sharable curriculum tools.
Export 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 visible only to you.
Coming in Phase 3Richer book metadata — covers, publication year, reading level, etc. — pulled automatically from open library databases.
Coming in Phase 3