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Decoding the Doodle: AI Lends a Hand in Art Therapy’s House-Tree-Person Test
The Teacher Who Planted Herself by Mechelle Gilford and Sir Bard circa 2024 Decoding the Doodle: AI Lends a Hand in Art Therapy’s House-Tree-Person Test Art therapy, a therapeutic approach harnessing the power of creative expression, has long relied on projective tests like the House-Tree-Person (HTP) to delve into the depths of the human psyche.…
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HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Stella J. Fritzell
Stella Fritzell is a PhD Candidate in Greek, Latin, & Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College. She received her BA in Classical Studies and Music from Carleton College in 2015, and an MA in Classical Studies from Bryn Mawr College in 2019 with a thesis entitled “Atalanta as a Repoussoir for Erotic & Competitive Ephebic Excellence”. Stella’s dissertation…
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The Hunger Games: Where to Start?
What is the role of imagination? Within imagination and literature, the significance of world-building is foundational for analyzing texts. World-building and the imagination within genres like dystopian, speculative, and sci-fi literature are particularly affective because the speculative work of these places allows audiences and worlds to connect to our world beyond the pages. The role…
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I Know I’ve Been Changed: The Liberatory Potential of Conjure Art
“Spiritual and cultural warfare are the bedrocks of settler colonialism” -Cara Page, Healing Justice Lineages How do you know you’ve been changed? What signals to you that you have undergone some profound transformation or healing? When I speak of change, I mean to discuss a freeing change, a liberating change that brings us closer to ourselves,…
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Join the Collective – The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Call for Participation The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy seeks new members to join our Editorial Collective. We invite applications from graduate students, scholars, and practitioners in all fields who critically and creatively engage with digital technology in their teaching, learning, and research. We will be appointing both graduate student members and non-student members…
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Storytelling for the Climate Emergency
Two weeks ago, I had the tremendous honor of guest teaching Storytelling alongside Ph.D. Candidate Vallerie Matos for Dr. Shelly Eversley’s Climate Justice course at Baruch College, CUNY. This undergraduate, interdisciplinary, and experiential learning course is a new offering from the Department of Black and Latino Studies. In this three-hour session, students practiced the essentials of storytelling,…
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Call for Papers: MLA Committee on Information Technology’s two panels at MLA 2025
For the MLA convention in New Orleans in 2025 (Jan. 9-12), the MLA’s Committee on Information Technology (CIT) is organizing two guaranteed sessions to help generate ideas related to the convention’s Presidential Theme of “visibility.” Abstracts: 300 words or less, by the end of the day (all time zones): 15 March 2024. Please submit your…
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Looking Back at #HASTAC2023: “Social Justice and the Power of Creative Education”
Donald Lee performing Element of Danger at HASTAC 2023 / photo by Ted Ngai
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Review: Introduction of Cathy N. Davidson & Christina Katopodis’ The New College Classroom
The New College Classroom. Cathy N. Davidson & Christina Katopodis, The New College Classroom. Harvard University Press, 2022. Pp. ix, 303. ISBN 9780674249954. Review by Waleska Solórzano, Cornell University. wds79@cornell.edu
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Review of Chapter 5 (“The First Class”) in Davidson and Katopodis’s The New College Classroom
Partway through Chapter 5, Davidson and Katopodis offer a straightforward statement that functions as a double-reminder to classroom instructors. They write, “Effective learning isn’t magic—and it’s not the same for everyone” (p. 103), which reminds instructors that (1) students come to class with a range of learning styles and experiences, and (2) there is more…