Two weeks ago, I had the great pleasure of visiting Penn State University for the first time. I was one of several invited speakers for the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) Symposium on #Alt-Ac. Sean Goudie, Director of the Center, was our kind host and the MC for the day’s discussions. The day-long event … Continue reading The Future is Now: (Re)Training for an Alt-Ac Future
On 10 July 2014, I had the great chance to present a paper at the Digital Humanities Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, “Play as Process and Product: On Making Serendip-o-matic.” The paper was a collaboration between four of the 12 team members from One Week | One Tool: Amy Papaelias, Mia Ridge, Scott Kleinman, and myself. … Continue reading “If Hippos be the Dude of Love…”: Serendip-o-matic at Digital Humanities 2014
At the end of August 2013, I was honored to be invited to speak at Fresno State's Center for Creativity and the Arts as the first visiting intellectual of the academic year. I helped the Center inaugurate its 2013-2014 theme: "Data and Technology" (PDF). I had the chance to lead a workshop on Voyant, meet many … Continue reading The Red Herring of Big Data
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