In April I had the pleasure of speaking at Case Western Reserve University. I was invited by Roger Zender at the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship to speak in their 2013 Colloquium, which was devoted to the subject of "Exploring Collaboration in Digital Scholarship." The talk gave me an opportunity to discuss the work we have … Continue reading “What’s in it for Me?”; or, Collaboration is not an End in Itself
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Mapping some Familiar Mark Z. Danielewski Tweets
A few days ago, I stumbled across a Twitter conversation about House of Leaves. That's generally enough to get my attention. The people involved were an added enticement. But the conversation among Jesse Stommel, Chuck Rybak, Sean Michael Morris, and Paul Benzon took a different direction when Paul asked, if anyone had "theories on what's up … Continue reading Mapping some Familiar Mark Z. Danielewski Tweets
Beyond the Digital: Pattern Recognition and Interpretation. A CFP for MLA 2014 from ACH
Cross-posted from http://www.ach.org/beyond-digital-cfp-mla-2014 Recent MLA Conventions have featured many sessions about the digital humanities, considering their impact on methodology, pedagogy, bibliography, race, and the profession itself. What is sometimes forgotten, however, is that the output of digital analysis is not itself the goal; rather, it is a means to an end, and that end is the … Continue reading Beyond the Digital: Pattern Recognition and Interpretation. A CFP for MLA 2014 from ACH
10 Things Academe Won’t Tell You
Last week, I had the opportunity to give a talk with Jason Jones at Emory, where we are both alums and where one of us still works. The English Department had invited Jason and his wife to campus to speak on different topics. When they asked Jason to give a ProfHacker-oriented talk, he suggested that he … Continue reading 10 Things Academe Won’t Tell You
Life Ain’t Pretty in the Steampunk City: A Call for Abstracts
By way of addressing what we see as a gap in the edited collection that Rachel Bowser and I announced last year, we are soliciting abstracts for essays that consider in one way or another representations of the city in steampunk. The term “city” should be understood widely to signify large and small urban spaces … Continue reading Life Ain’t Pretty in the Steampunk City: A Call for Abstracts