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)
This semester I've been kept busy not just with the different projects I'm managing at DiSC but with a completely redesigned first-year writing course. In keeping with the other 75% of my work, the class has explored the intersections of literature and technology. We've considered the past visions of the future while reading William Gibson's … Continue reading Writing ≠ Papers
Next July and the next Digital Humanities Conference might seem very far away (to say nothing of Nebraska), but it turns out that the due date for the call for proposals is right around the corner. Consequently, Kate Singer and I invite 250-word abstracts for a panel on The Future of Undergraduate Digital Humanities. Abstracts are due to … Continue reading The Future of Undergraduate Digital Humanities: Call for Abstracts for DH 2013:
A few months ago I wrote about the Digital Pedagogy Unconference that Adeline Koh and I had organized. I'm pleased to announce--both here and over at ProfHacker--that the long dark night of the soul has passed and you can now visit our website and register for the unconference, which will take place on the morning of 3 January. It's … Continue reading Why the 2013 MLA Digital Pedagogy Unconference Isn’t a THATCamp
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