Category: History
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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
“Let’s make every space a Lesbian and Gay space. Every street a part of our sexual geography.” Queers Read This, 1990 On February, 11, 2021, I put out a call on Twitter for Queer DH projects (offering no definition of either, which seems fitting). Within a day I had a flood of information…
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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
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Interview with David Bodenhamer
In this video, I interview David Bodenhamer, the founding Executive Director of The Polis Center and Professor of History at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, about spatial humanities and the Digital Atlas of American Religion. Prior to his appointment, Bodenhamer was Professor of History and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Southern Mississippi (1976-1988). He worked to craft…
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Hacking the History of Hackensack
I live in Hackensack, New Jersey, and have been living here for two years. Our class was assigned a neighborhood walk, and for the assignment we had to turn off technology and spend time getting to know our neighborhoods and their histories. I usually don’t walk around my neighborhood much and definitely not to observe…
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Walking through Virginia’s Revolutionary History
I am very fortunate to live within a close radius of many diverse historical places across the state of Virginia. On September 26th, I went for a long walk around the grounds of Gunston Hall, the former home of George Mason, one of the “founding fathers” of the United States of America.…
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What We should be Writing about
To answer the question of what I think we should be writing about, I think we should be writing about Black History along with Jamaican History. I think we should learn about the history that made Jamaica an independent country. I also think we should touch on Jamaica’s music history, like how reggae became a…