A Digital Pedagogy Unconference at MLA13: Join Us!

[This has been cross-posted at Adeline Koh’s website, http://www.adelinekoh.org/.] Adeline and I are thrilled to announce that we’ll be holding an “unconference” on digital pedagogy as a preconference workshop for the Modern Language Association Annual Meeting in 2013. What are “Unconferences”? The ten-year old unconference format emerged as a response to weaknesses of the traditional … Continue reading A Digital Pedagogy Unconference at MLA13: Join Us! →

Theses on the Open Humanities

On 25 and 26 April, Roger Whitson and I had the opportunity to visit the University of Florida on the invitation of Laurie N. Taylor, Digital Humanities Librarian in the George A. Smathers Libraries. We had the opportunity to learn about the work of UF's Digital Collections and attended UF's Research Computing Day, where got to see … Continue reading Theses on the Open Humanities →

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 →

Changing Teaching one Fro Yo and Bánh Mì at a Time

I'm tremendously excited to announce Eat Talk Teach Run, a new project I've been working on at Emory for the last few months. Over the summer, my colleague, Howard Chiou, and I found ourselves thinking about grad student teaching. For many years, the Laney Graduate School has had a three-day event (TATTO) focusing on pedagogy … Continue reading Changing Teaching one Fro Yo and Bánh Mì at a Time →

Introduction to Digital Humanities

I was thrilled to learn this summer that I would be teaching again in the fall. Both the English department (where I've taught previously) and the Library (where I'm a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow) had supported the idea during the previous year, but this is the first that we've been able to make it work out. … Continue reading Introduction to Digital Humanities →