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
[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!
Building on several panels at the 2012 MLA Convention that separately considered digital pedagogy (“Building Digital Humanities in the Undergraduate Classroom,” “Digital Pedagogy,” and “New Media, New Pedagogies”) and games ("Digital Narratives and Gaming for Teaching Language and Literature" and "Close Playing: Literary Methods and Video Game Studies"), this electronic roundtable will generate discussions about … Continue reading Teaching with Games: A CFP for MLA 2013