After completing two months in beginner screwmeneutics and digital humanities research, I felt like the Vogue files was a blank canvas for exploration, especially without an introduction to the subject matter. Here’s what I found. My search started with the statistics page, looking at the default setting of circulation. I noticed four periods of general …

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As disruptive as Mark Sample’s suggestion that Deformance should be regarded as a legitimate digital humanities undertaking, I simply couldn’t accept his proposition as adoptable. There are two broad reasons why. First, leaving the text means leaving academic inquiry. Second, deformance is merely performance, or maybe a better term might be reformance. To begin, humanistic studies …

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I have to start out talking about my favorite poem from the first half of The Worlds Wife: Mrs. Midas. No doubt a familiar story aided my enjoyment. The poem read (and many of the others) read like some thought experiment which asked, “what are the real consequences?” For example, what really is the consequence of everything …

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I’m writing this post in defense of Lizzie, 6, not for the act itself, but the means of presentation. More specifically, instead of focusing on the actions itself, I hope it’s clear that I support the medium of poetry for an expression of rape, distrust, and entrapment. Over Christmas break, I read a book by a New …

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I wish to add to Stephen Ramsay’s “Who’s In and Who’s Out” – partially because I love a controversial topic, and partially because these topics seem to be a great sieve, worthy of discussing not for their inherent truth but because of their role in solidifying opinions and clarifying necessary definitions. In Franco Moretti’s “Graphs”, …

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Like many of my classmates, I found Mrs. Dalloway a difficult read. For the most part, however, it was enjoyable. I felt the highs and the lows along with the characters. Even if I had never shared an experience with the characters, the writing sucked me into a position of empathy that was hard to …

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I’ll skip the charades of an introduction and get right into things. I’m not sure what to think of Sexy. Here’s why: Miranda is a pretty awful person. She knows she’s “a wife’s worst nightmare.” She loves playing the role of mistress, even going as far as buying clothes she thinks a side chick should have. …

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Though Anchor Man should never come up in a humanities, class, I’m pulling it in right now. Somewhere near the middle of the film, Ron Burgandy discovers his dog, Baxter, ate an entire wheel of cheese. His reaction?  Well, that’s essentially my reaction reading about the depth of Netflix movie recommendation algorithm. Sure, it’s invasive, …

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