Join our Band of Merry Air Pirates: Call for Abstracts on Steampunk

A few years ago, my colleague Rachel Bowser and I co-edited a special issue of Neo-Victorian Studies on the subject of steampunk. As I'm guessing you already know, steampunk is a movement fascinated by the vagaries of time as well as technology. So perhaps that's why we find ourselves--two years later--going back to this particular imagined future. … Continue reading Join our Band of Merry Air Pirates: Call for Abstracts on Steampunk →

Original Digital Humanities Research with Undergraduates: A Poster at Digital Humanities 2012

I'm quite happy to be presenting a poster at the 2012 Digital Humanities conference on a research project I tackled with my undergraduates last year in Intro to Digital Humanities. We tested two volumes of Carol Ann Duffy's poetry for the differences that she herself felt existed in the work. First we read the two volumes and … Continue reading Original Digital Humanities Research with Undergraduates: A Poster at Digital Humanities 2012 →

Comparing Corpora in Voyant Tools

I'm at the Digital Humanities 2012 Conference and attended on a Voyant Tools workshop with Stéfan Sinclair and Geoff Rockwell. I've enjoyed playing with Voyant many times over the last year, particularly in my Introduction to Digital Humanities class, where we distant-read the work of Carol Ann Duffy. Voyant's a great set of tools for doing … Continue reading Comparing Corpora in Voyant Tools →

Just Playing Around at THATCamp Prime

It's that time of year again: THATCamp time! I'll be leaving tomorrow for the weekend's bash/learnfest at the Roy Rosenzweig CHNM. In a Twitter conversation last month, my fellow ProfHacker Ethan Watrall and I started talking about the games we wanted to bring to play in the evening. And that led to Ethan suggesting that we … Continue reading Just Playing Around at THATCamp Prime →

A Digital Pedagogy Unconference at MLA13: Join Us!

[This has been cross-posted at Adeline Koh’s website, http://www.adelinekoh.org/.] Adeline and I are thrilled to announce that we’ll be holding an “unconference” on digital pedagogy as a preconference workshop for the Modern Language Association Annual Meeting in 2013. What are “Unconferences”? The ten-year old unconference format emerged as a response to weaknesses of the traditional … Continue reading A Digital Pedagogy Unconference at MLA13: Join Us! →