One important but under-considered aspect of the connection between television’s rise and the Cold War is the anxiety that the rapid growth in the cultural influence of television produced in its wake, most notably a concern about the older, traditional American culture ostensibly being left behind. Included within this “traditional” culture was…[Read more]

Syllabus and major assignments for a first-year interdisciplinary seminar on data and society, taught in Fall 2022.

With the brazen privatization, if not pending chaotic collapse of Twitter, millions of people are looking for alternative spaces to share their work, thoughts, and ill-conceived memes. Among the many digital migrants are a significant number of academics who looking for guidance, and familiar faces, as they try to make sense of the many new…[Read more]

Presented at the MVSA Lifetime Achievement Award Roundtable in Honor of Patrick Leary. This paper claims that the VICTORIA-L email listserv, which Leary inaugurated in 1993, represents one of the longest running digital humanities projects in Victorian studies. Instead of its technical sophistication, VICTORIA-L underscores the crucial role of…[Read more]