Category: Literature & Language
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Digital Technologies and the Call for New Genres of Theory
I recently attended a panel discussion at the NYU Center for the Humanities to kick off the release of a new book, Theorizing Sound Writing, ed. Deborah Kapchan (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2017). The book explores the relationship of writing and aurality (the study of listening) in order to pursue two aims: It theorizes how […]
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Grammar in the Era of Social Media
This morning, I read this sentence in a New York Times article covering Airbnb: “For nine years, Jill Bishop enjoyed the camaraderie of renting out her spare bedroom on Airbnb.” I flinched, as I always do when I see incorrect placement of grammatical modification. As the sentence is constructed, it is unclear whether Jill rented […]
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End of the Semester
Hello everyone! I hope you all had a great end of the semester! I realize that my blog posts were rather sporadic and I wish I had contributed a bit more this semester. Anyhow, I just figured I’d publish an end of the semester update/accomplishment post as Kalle suggested in his email. I’m very excited to share that […]
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Five Digital Humanities Public Resources Online
Open-source content readily exists at our fingertips. The degree to which we have access to this content is arguable, though still reveling underneath the surface is a fighting battle of order in the face of information overload. We are flâneurs in the digital landscape traveling through, click by click, in search of content we seek, […]
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Overlapping Talk in Podcasts
Now that we’ve released four episodes of Scholars At Play, I wanted to write about something that I’ve noticed while editing the most recent episode: instances where all four of us spoke at the same time, or instances of “overlapping talk.” My attention was drawn to them for a very practical, technical reason: they are […]
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Transcript of Comparative Literature Dissertation Defense Presentation
Below is the approximate transcript of the presentation I delivered to begin my (successful) dissertation defense in the Comparative Literature department of the Graduate Center, City University of New York. The defense took place on April 19, 2017. The thesis is entitled Lyrical Mysticism: The Writing and Reception of Catherine of Siena, and the digital […]
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Narrativas transmedia y educación
Textos nómades. Relatos que se mueven sin destino fijo ni residencia aparente. Nacen en un cómic, juegan en la pantalla de televisión y se van a dormir al cine. Pero nunca mueren… eso no. Textos que circulan infinitamente, se expanden, comprimen, transforman. Textos mutantes. Vitales. Abiertos. TRANSMEDIA es la palabra que usó Henry Jenkins en 2003 […]
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On Respecting “Deep Knowledge” in Collaborative Feminist Work: a Discussion with Jacque Wernimont
On Wednesday March 15th, Arizona State University English Professor Jacque Wernimont held a discussion with a group of graduate students, faculty, and staff at Northeastern University on the topic of building digital feminist communities. I was particularly excited for Jacque’s visit, as a group I helped organize at Northeastern, the Digital Feminist Commons, co-sponsored the […]
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“A good dissertation, is a done dissertation” – And nothing else matters?
In February 2017, Kathleen Woodward, director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington and professor in the Department of English, offered the seminar “Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times – A Microseminar with Sidonie Smith.” Graduate students from the departments of English, French and Italian Studies, Spanish and Portuguese […]
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Cytoscape Experience
In this practicum, I will focus on analyzing data that shows the distribution of race and ethnicity among the deceased that law enforcement agencies killed in 2015 & 2016. In order to do this analysis, I will first begin by visualizing the data provided. After downloading and formatting the data collected for 2015 and 2016, […]