I’m home for the third snow day in a row, for the second time in as many weeks. The snow is already melting and pretty soon there won’t be anything left of it apart from the trace on our cameras. So it seems appropriate that I take this chance (in between brewing cocoa for the … Continue reading Introduction to Digital Humanities (Again)
Last Spring at the height of the frantic “propose papers for the next MLA Convention!” I got contacted by Sarah Werner about a special session she was proposing on alt-ac and gender. I thought it was a fabulous topic and I wrote up a proposal, and Sarah (as panel proposers do) did a lot more … Continue reading Alt-Ac and Gender at the 2014 MLA: a Proposal
cross-posted from ACH.org On Friday, January 10 from 5:15-6:30pm in Sheraton I at the Sheraton Chicago, the ACH will sponsor a session (#402) at the Modern Language Association's Convention. Earlier this year, the ACH put out a call for papers on the subject "Beyond the Digital." In recent years, an increasing number of sessions at the … Continue reading Methods and More for “Beyond the Digital” at MLA 2014
Earlier this year, I sent Rosemary Feal, the Executive Director of the MLA, a direct message via Twitter. In the last couple of years I've had the chance to get to know her as we've spoken together on panels and as I've served on the MLA's Committee on Information Technology (CIT). In this DM, I suggested that … Continue reading Two Job Markets in Every Pot: My Platform for the MLA Executive Council
As you might have gathered from the Twitter storm that barreled out of Fairfax, Virginia, this afternoon, we released and launched the fabulous, amazing Serendip-o-matic. One of the great things about living in the 21st century is that we have a ton of materials open and available to us in digital formats that have been collected … Continue reading Day 5 of OWOT: We Did It! (Can We Do It Again? Please??)