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Natalie Berkman replied to the topic Welcome! in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoHello all! My name is Natalie and I just defended my dissertation on literature and mathematics at Princeton University a little over a week ago! I’m in a bit of a transitional period — I recently accepted what seems like the coolest job in Paris at the SAE Institute, but my dissertation committee also insists that I try to publish my d…[Read more]
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Nora J Williams replied to the topic Welcome! in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoHi everyone! I’m Nora, currently an independent scholar of early modern drama, performance, and digital culture. My day job is in enrollment management (admissions) for graduate programs at Emerson College in Boston. Current projects include a book on Shakespeare and Twitter (yes, really) and a practice-as-research project that uses Measure for…[Read more]
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Caroline Winter started the topic Test post in the discussion
Literature and Economics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThis is a test post to try out the moderating functions available.
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Mariana Strassacapa Ou replied to the topic Welcome! in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoHello! I’m Mariana Ou. Recently received my MSc Library Science from City, University of London, after a few years working as an architect in Brazil. Now in the UK, I’ve been doing library & archive work, which I love. Considering going back to research in a PhD; still thinking about choice of institution, topic, timing (I might be the most junior…[Read more]
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Nashieli Marcano replied to the topic Welcome! in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoHey, I’m Nashieli Marcano, Research Librarian at Clemson University. I received my masters in Library and Information Studies and my PhD in Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. My book, Chronotopias: Mediation of Identitary Spaces in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico (in Spanish), is in press at the moment. My research areas are…[Read more]
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Mollie Freier replied to the topic Welcome! in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoMy name is Mollie, and I’m Professor and Head of Public Services in the Olson Library at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, MI (on the south shore of Lake Superior). My academic background includes the M.S, in Library and Information Science, as well as a master’s and Ph. D. in English (all from the University of Illinois at…[Read more]
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Kate Koppy replied to the topic Welcome! in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThanks so much for creating this group!
I’m finishing up the second year of a post-doctoral teaching fellowship and transitioning to a visiting assistant professorship at the same university. My overarching research focus is the way that narrative works to form and maintain communities. Specific research projects have looked at a variety of media…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Obsolescence and Innovation in the Age of the Digital in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThe relationship between obsolescence and innovation in the digital age is a peculiar one, conveying not past and future but instead demonstrating their eternal simultaneity.
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Geraldine Heng deposited Reinventing Race, Colonization, and Globalisms across Deep Time: Lessons from the Longue Durée in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoCritically surveys the long premodern history of race and racism, colonization and imperialism, and globalism, across c. 1000-1500 CE.
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Rosanna Cantavella deposited El uso funcional del debate sobre las mujeres en Francesc Eiximenis in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoPaper read at the Colloque International “Penser le Genre: Theorica 4”, Lyon, 4-5 noviembre 2015 (http://tinyurl.com/phhybpp). Through the examples of some passages from Francesc Eiximenis’ Terç del Crestià and the Llibre de les dones (in which this Franciscan spiritualist quotes and uses the debate on women), the author issues a caution on this s…[Read more]
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Marissa K. López posted an update in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoHi, all! I’m an Associate Professor of English and Chicanx Studies at UCLA. My first book, Chicano Nations, was about nationalism and Chicanx lit from the 19th century through 9/11 and the War on Terror. I just completed a second book, out in June 2019, called Racial Immanence, about uses of the body in contemporary Chicanx cultural production.…[Read more]
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Emma Monroy posted an update in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoHi all, I’m Emma Monroy. I’m a Ph.D. candidate in French and Francophone studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My current research is in text and image studies in the Francophone Caribbean, but I’d like to also be more involved in digital humanities. To that end, I’m currently collaborating on an interactive online database…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy posted an update in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoWelcome, everyone! I’m looking forward to working through our summer camp challenges with you!
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Nina Lager Vestberg posted an update in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoHello, my name is Nina Lager Vestberg and I’m a faculty member in the Department of Art and Media Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). I’m currently trying to finish a book manuscript on digitization and the archival cultures of photography, and I’m also engaged in a large research project on digitization and…[Read more]
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Joelle Mann posted an update in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoHi all! My name is Joelle Mann. Like our camp director, I also go to Stony Brook; luckily, she’s my officemate too! I’m excited to be here. Despite the fact that I have had a profile on this site for several months, I know little about how to use Hum. Commons in productive ways. My research currently investigates the interactions among media…[Read more]
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Jeannette Vaught posted an update in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoHello! I’m Jeannette Vaught, an adjunct lecturer at Cal State Los Angeles. My research focuses on agricultural science history, and I teach courses on science and culture. I definitely need some guidance and inspiration to improve my digital profile as I prepare to publish my first book and get a podcast off the ground, and this camp is perfect timing!
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Peter M. Logan deposited PRIMITIVE CRITICISM AND THE NOVEL: G. H. LEWES AND HIPPOLYTE TAINE ON DICKENS in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoAn analysis of criticism of Charles Dickens by his contemporaries G. H. Lewes and Hippolyte Taine. Both assessments address Dickens’s popularity by relying on commonplace concepts from Victorian anthropology. However, Lewes argues for a new form of critical practice addressed to popular fiction and addresses the inadequacy of existing critical…[Read more]
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Kathie Gossett replied to the topic Welcome! in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoHello! I’m Kathie Gossett, a faculty member in the writing department at UC Davis. My current research includes digital dissertations (both creating them and archiving them), medieval and digital rhetoric, and user experience. (And yes, those things all do go together, I promise–I’m even working on a book to prove it!)
I’ve let my digital…[Read more]
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Kirsten Ashley Bussiere replied to the topic Welcome! in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoHi there! I’m Kirsten Bussière. I am currently completing my MA in English and Digital Humanities at Carleton University and I will be attending the University of Ottawa in the fall for my PhD in English. My current research pertains to utopian nostalgia and collective memory in contemporary post-apocalyptic fiction. Focusing on the geographies o…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic Group Site in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoAttention campers: Our site is up!
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