On Thursday, 9 December, I helped lead an Infoforum in Emory's Woodruff Library. Infoforums are events that we have on almost a weekly basis, where the entire library staff is invited to hear one or more people present on current projects, recent conferences, or their work. The range of subjects is impressive, and the format … Continue reading Library Games: A Presentation
I'm very pleased to announce that after more than two and a half years of work (i.e., more time than my daughter has been alive), the special issue of Neo-Victorian Studies on steampunk that I co-edited with my great friend Rachel Bowser (who is frustratingly not present online). We're exceptionally proud of the articles that … Continue reading Like a Geyser, Our Steampunk Journal Issue Gushes Forth
Last week I asked several people on Twitter if they could recommend any books on WordPress. We're working to more effectively implement a WP Install at Emory for faculty use and for low-key digital scholarship projects. (Bigger projects will most likely be running on Omeka.) A few others asked that I make the list available … Continue reading WordPress Books
I've just returned from a few days at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine (Trinidad). I was invited by the campus's Instructional Development Unit (IDU) to deliver the keynote address at the presentation of their biennial UWI / Guardian Life "Premium" Teaching Awards. The theme that they asked me to speak on was … Continue reading Five Reasons to Use Social Media in the Classroom
One of the Big Issue books to hit academia this year is Louis Menand's The Marketplace of Ideas. The book got some notice at the close of 2009 when an excerpt--"The Ph.D. Problem"--was published in Harvard Magazine. In this article, Menand argues that the production of people holding the doctorate is broken due to the … Continue reading Adjuncts –> The Glenn Beck-ification of Cultural Commentary