Category: History
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Images of Enclosure
When I first began researching madwomen, my search began in literature. I combed through books, short stories, and poetry across periods. I found so much madness not only in the characters but in the writers’ own lives. Writing, after all, is an extension of ourselves and our circumstances. If so many female writers were experiencing […]
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On mapping
“Maps are not territory; they are spaces, spaces to be crossed and recrossed and experienced from every angle. The only way to understand a map is to get down into it, to play at the edges, to jump into the center and back out again. We need to trace and retrace its lines by […]
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The Things We Believe In: Thoughts on Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling’s “A Libertarian Walks Into A Bear”
Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling’s 2020 book A Libertarian Walks Into A Bear: The Utopian Plot To Liberate An American Town (And Some Bears) offers a glimpse at the socio-political equivalent of a train crash. The author’s excavation of the history of Grafton, New Hampshire, and his interviews with its residents etch humorous, yet haunting portrayals of a […]
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Reflecting on a Year of Book Collecting
In a way, a cookbook is a little world of its own. There is something magical that happens when you read, say, Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking or Samin Nosrat’s Salt Fat Acid Heat. In a sense, yes, they are short scripts of instructions dictating the preparation of specific items of food, […]
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Reframing Digital Humanities: Conversations with Digital Humanists
Reframing Digital Humanities: Conversations with Digital Humanists is an open educational resource (OER) inspired by the Reframing History Podcast. While I can say much about this project, my comments from the introduction capture the project well (I hope!). I see Reframing Digital Humanities: Conversations with Digital Humanists as a continuation of my community-centric digital humanities praxis. While […]
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News release: Printed Pathways in Latino Periodicals
Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage’s US Latino Digital Humanities program (USLDH) announces the release of “Printed Pathways in US Latino Periodicals.” This digital project is a comprehensive authority list that contains robust bibliographic information about Latina/o authors and poets who published in US Latino periodicals. With over 4,800 records, “Printed Pathways” makes visible the complex […]
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Queers (in DH) Read This
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Campbell and the Computer (2): 1949
The year of publication of Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces turns out to have been a fortuitous one, as far as my own work and personal retrospective go, anyway. The same post-war academic flurry produced Alan Turing’s landmark 1949 paper ‘Can Machines Think?’, containing the mathematician’s speculations on the capacities of Turing’s newly-advanced computational engines […]
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MLA Panel on “D’Annunzio as World Literature,” Thursday Jan. 7 @ 5:15pm (EST)
Please join us for our panel at the upcoming MLA Convention (Toronto, 2021, held remotely): Session 192 – D’Annunzio as World Literature: Translation and Reception in the Wake of Decadence Thursday, January 7, 5:15pm-6:30pm EST Please note: Attendence requires registration for the MLA Convention Panel details: Presider Michael Subialka, University of California, Davis Presentations Cosmopolitanism in […]
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Decolonizing the Museum During Covid-19: A Virtual Exhibition on Indigenous Art of Survivance