• HASTAC Scholars Application Link Here (Due Nov 15)

    HASTAC Scholars 2022 – 2024Applications Are Open!The deadline to apply has been extended.Applications for the 2022-2024 Cohort are due  Tuesday, November 15th.Join a community of scholars dedicated to rethinking pedagogy, learning, research, and the role of higher education today. The HASTAC Scholars program is an innovative student-driven community of graduate and undergraduate students. This year, scholars will be participating […]

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  • Art History: Self Portraits

       

  • Call for Participation: The 3rd African Electronic Literature Alliance International Workshop Conference (AELAIWC2023)

    Call for Participation: The 3rd African Electronic Literature Alliance International Workshop Conference (AELAIWC2023)

    Call for Participation: The 3rd African Electronic Literature Alliance International Workshop Conference (AELAIWC2023) The Faculty of Arts, University of Calabar, Calabar Nigeria in conjunction with African Electronic Literature Alliance & African Diasporic Electronic Alliance (AELA&ADELI) organises The 3rd African Electronic Literature Alliance International Workshop Conference (AELAIWC2023) Theme: Digital Humanities & Interdisciplinary Date: 22nd-25th November, 2023. […]

  • Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of English in Medieval and/or Early Modern British literature and culture, with expertise in Digital Humanities, Race, Inequality, and Social Justice

      The Department of English at Santa Clara University invites applications for a tenure-track position requiring expertise in medieval and/or early modern British literature and culture, race, social justice, and Digital Humanities. Expertise in book history is also desirable. Our department is participating in a College cluster hire for a group of faculty who specialize […]

  • Us in Flux, a second cycle on reimagining community

    Us in Flux, a second cycle on reimagining community

    In the uncertain and roiling spring and summer of 2020, the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University published Us in Flux, a series of stories and events about community, collaboration, and collective imagination in the face of transformative change. We wanted to follow threads of hope in myriad directions, and were […]

  • Images of Enclosure

    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 […]

  • Medea’s Righteous Anger

    Medea’s Righteous Anger

    “We are not goddesses or matriarchs or edifices of divine forgiveness; we are not fiery fingers of judgment or instruments of flagellation; we are women forced back always upon our woman’s power”  Audre Lorde    The quote above comes from Audre Lorde’s essay “Uses of Anger,” where she argues that anger is a powerful force […]

  • My lack of “pen” still creates

    My lack of “pen” still creates

    “Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman” -Virginia Woolf I’ve been asked why I decided to do my thesis project in blog form as a digital humanities project. It’s a question I asked myself repeatedly while I was planning and preparing for […]

  • Mad/Woman

    Mad/Woman

    What is a madwoman? My simple definition is that it is made up of the two words “mad” and “woman”. Both terms open up a variety of meanings depending on language/culture, societal norms, and beliefs. I will attempt to give my definitions for these terms within the scope of my project in as concise terms […]