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Brian Croxall deposited Introduction to Digital Humanities, Fall 2017 syllabus in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis syllabus was my fourth version of a course aimed at introducing the digital humanities at an undergraduate level. The course was organized around four projects, each of which was oriented by a theoretical reading: mapping a novel; text analysis with archival sources; creating composite images from digital films; and text digitization,…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoSpecial Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945: Call for Essays
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945 (essays examining the topic from the perspective of gender and sexuality would be most welcome)deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
Please submit full essays of 6,000-7,500 wor…[Read more] -
Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited The Speculative Situation in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSyllabus for ENGL 758D, The Speculative Situation, graduate seminar in the University of Maryland English department, Fall 2017.
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Anastasia Salter deposited Principles of Visual Language Syllabus in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThis course focuses on developing visual language literacy and theoretical frameworks through analyzing and creating a range of narrative media. We will examine a range of visual scholarly and creative works, starting with sequential art and moving into time-based and interactive media.
Students will:
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Amanda Licastro deposited The Cyborg Apocalypse in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIs the divide between human and machine becoming harder to maintain? From the Golem of folk tales to Frankenstein and even Siri, the concept of the semi-artificial person, or cyborg, is long-lived, appearing across popular, religious, and scientific imaginations. As technology becomes more personal, the cyborg becomes less alien, and the prospect…[Read more]
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Heike Bauer deposited The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThe book examines little known and forgotten writings by Magnus Hirschfeld, the influential sexologist who is best known today for his homosexual activism, transgender work and founding of the world’s first Institute of Sexual Science in 1919. Arguing that negative experiences, as much as affirmative subculture formation, shaped a collective sense…[Read more]
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André Carrington deposited Mike Brown’s Body: New Materialism and Black Form in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoA contribution to the Editors’ Forum on Queer Form, edited by Kadji Amin, Roy Pérez, and Amber Musser, for ASAP/Journal.
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Spencer Keralis deposited What I’m Reading This Summer: Spencer Keralis in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoMy research bridges my interests in media history, in particular history of the book, with my duties helping catalyze conversations around digital humanities, diversity, and social justice in an academic library at a large public university. This summer’s reading has gelled around a couple of slowly converging topics – information literacy and min…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Rags Make Paper, Paper Makes Money: Material Texts and Metaphors of Capital in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoBecause nineteenth-century paper was made from rags, the materiality of paper money became a likely ground from which to debate the nature of value in modern capitalism. On one hand, if paper money was backed by nothing but itself, then it was worth little more than itself: a gathering of lowly rags. On the other hand, the process of turning…[Read more]
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Amanda Licastro started the topic CFP: Composition as Big Data – Abstracts 8/1 in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the following edited collection. Feel free to share widely (with apologies for cross-posting).
This edited collection, currently under consideration, will serve as a research and methods guide for practitioners interested in conducting large-scale data-driven examinations of writing.
Full CFP here:…[Read more] -
Amanda Licastro started the topic CFP: Composition as Big Data – Abstracts 8/1 in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the following edited collection. Feel free to share widely (with apologies for cross-posting).
This edited collection, currently under consideration, will serve as a research and methods guide for practitioners interested in conducting large-scale data-driven examinations of writing.
Full CFP here:…[Read more] -
Amanda Licastro started the topic CFP: Composition as Big Data – Abstracts 8/1 in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the following edited collection. Feel free to share widely (with apologies for cross-posting).
This edited collection, currently under consideration, will serve as a research and methods guide for practitioners interested in conducting large-scale data-driven examinations of writing.
Full CFP here:…[Read more] -
Amanda Licastro started the topic CFP: Composition as Big Data – Abstracts 8/1 in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the following edited collection. Feel free to share widely (with apologies for cross-posting).
This edited collection, currently under consideration, will serve as a research and methods guide for practitioners interested in conducting large-scale data-driven examinations of writing.
Full CFP here:…[Read more] -
Amanda Licastro started the topic CFP: Composition as Big Data – Abstracts 8/1 in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the following edited collection. Feel free to share widely (with apologies for cross-posting).
This edited collection, currently under consideration, will serve as a research and methods guide for practitioners interested in conducting large-scale data-driven examinations of writing.
Full CFP here:…[Read more] -
Amanda Licastro started the topic CFP: Composition as Big Data – Abstracts 8/1 in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the following edited collection. Feel free to share widely (with apologies for cross-posting).
This edited collection, currently under consideration, will serve as a research and methods guide for practitioners interested in conducting large-scale data-driven examinations of writing.
Full CFP here:…[Read more] -
Roger Whitson deposited DTC 375: Languages, Text, and Technology (Revised for Fall 2017) in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months ago“But these perceptions had to be fabricated first.”
–Friedrich Kittler, Grammophone, Film, Typewriter (1986)DTC 375 is an introduction to the historical relationships between technology, communication, and forms of writing. The course gives students an appreciation of the technological history of media, including hands-on encounters wit…[Read more]
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Ivonne Garcia started the topic Susan Tane Travel Grants for joint PS/NHS Conference in Kyoto in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoSusan Tane Travel Grants, Flight, and Hotel Information for Poe Scholars Traveling to Kyoto:
The Poe Studies Association and the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society will host a joint international conference with the Japanese Poe Society and the Japanese Hawthorne Society in Kyoto, Japan from June 21-24, 2018. Plenary speakers will be Michael J.…[Read more]
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Ivonne Garcia started the topic CALL FOR PAPERS: Poe & Hawthorne Kyoto Conference – Deadline: August 1, 2017 in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS: Poe & Hawthorne Conference
Kyoto Garden Palace Hotel—Kyoto, Japan
The Poe Studies Association, The Poe Society of Japan, The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, and The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society of Japan invite paper and session proposals for a joint conference to be held in Kyoto, Japan on June 21-24, 2018. Our banquet speaker w…[Read more] -
Ivonne Garcia started the topic Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Kyoto Conference Sam Coale Travel Grants, etc. in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoKyoto Conference Sam Coale Travel Grants, Flight, Hotel, and Contact Information:
The Poe Studies Association and the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society will host a joint international conference with the Japanese Poe Society and the Japanese Hawthorne Society in Kyoto, Japan from June 21-24, 2018. Plenary speakers will be Michael J. Colacurcio and…[Read more] -
Sarah Werner deposited Working with EEBO and ECCO in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoA how-to lesson on working with Early English Books Online and Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, focusing both on the basics of searching and navigating interfaces and on thinking about remediation on how EEBO and ECCO represent material texts. Presented originally at Edinburgh’s “Beyond the Black Box” series in May 2017.
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