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
Category: Presentations
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
Minor Differences and Diverging Paths
What follows is my talk for a session at the 2013 MLA on "How Did I Get Here? Our 'Altac' Jobs." As always, I'm super excited to be at the MLA and to be speaking about a subject that is near and dear to my heart: new models of employment for PhDs and the training … Continue reading Minor Differences and Diverging Paths
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
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