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]