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
Category: Research
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
28 Days (or Months) Later
As someone who went to grad school in large part due to a fascination with Derrida, I perhaps shouldn't be surprised that so much of academia seems to be about deferral. Nevertheless I'm always surprised to see something that I wrote months or years ago show up, out of the blue, in its finished form. … Continue reading 28 Days (or Months) Later
Defining “Digital Humanities” 2012
It's that time of the year again: the Day of the Life of the Digital Humanities or Day of DH. As has been the case since 2009, hundreds of digital humanities practitioners will take to the blogs and Twitter (follow #dayofDH) to talk about what they do throughout a single day's work. The goals of … Continue reading Defining “Digital Humanities” 2012