Since I’m working on an essay on Hemingway and ecocriticism, I decided to ask the Environmental Humanities group about texts I should read on ecocriticism and modernism more generally. I’ll be interested to see what happens next.

I’ve found a number of people to follow, but I’ve been disappointed that there are so few people in Hemingway studies and even modernism more generally who have a presence here. I think one of the problems is that those groups have existing networks (email lists, newsletters, journals, Facebook groups) already and don’t see the need to join.…[Read more]

@CGleek Humanities Commons doesn’t currently offer stats on profiles at the moment because the team is trying to be thoughtful about what they implement. That being said, they do plan to have some metrics around CORE deposits emailed periodically.

The HC team is very open to hearing users’ thoughts. If you have ideas about what metrics would be u…[Read more]

@Cgleek Thanks for sharing your experiences with this challenge, and welcome to the camp! I hope HC can help you stay connected to a DH community.

Yes, the Humanities Commons team has also noticed less activity in some of the public, subject-based groups and has been trying to think about how to encourage more discussion and community. It’s…[Read more]

@Kirstenbussiere Thanks for sharing! I’m happy to hear you made contact with someone in your field through this networking activity! I guess the fact that it happened outside of HC (but while discussing your HC work!) just goes to show how far your digital presence extends! 🙂 Feel free to keep the group updated if anything comes of this…[Read more]

There are precious few folks on HC-some of whom I already correspond with- who work in and around AfAm Print Culture, Consequently, I followed a few folks who work in DH as this is an area of interest and I’m in need of some network connections as my program has lost it’s DH faculty. The groups I’m looking to join lack active discussion threads; i…[Read more]

I found a few people to follow so far and I will continue to look for more. In one of the groups I posted a new topic but nobody has answered just yet on Humanities Commons. On Twitter though I had a fellow scholar respond to my tweet which summarized what I did for this challenge and the topic of my discussion. It turns out that we both are…[Read more]

Hi all. I’ve updated my profile here. I too struggle with considering what sort of photo (professionally-staged vs. one that doesn’t look ‘too’ academic) to include in public profiles. Thankfully, ORCID has no option for a profile photo. I went with the latter for my HC profile, as I think photos of me in the lab or the classroom come off a little…[Read more]

@KKoppy Thanks for looking out!

@magistercarroll Thanks for sharing your experience and your thoughts! When the platform launched, the Humanities Commons team debated whether or not they wanted to allow members to see who others are following and ultimately decided that they didn’t want this to be visible. While they understand that seeing wh…[Read more]

I’ve added a few more folks–and even found a few that I follow on Twitter as well.

I’ve also joined two more groups. Both the ones I’m most interested don’t have a very active discussion board so I’m thinking I may add a discussion topic here.

I’ve started following three more people, and joined one more group. I am pondering whether to start a new discussion topic in one of the groups or reply to an existing one, but haven’t decided yet. None of the groups I’ve found as yet have an enormous amount of recent activity, so I’m not sure which would be the best option for the purposes of…[Read more]

Hello, everyone!

I’ve just completed Challenge #2. I started following 5 people, mostly scholars in postcolonial ecocriticism, Global South lit and environmental humanities, and joined 2 new groups, Animal Studies and Lit and Economics. At first I had difficulty finding people with similar interests, perhaps because I was searching very specific…[Read more]

So I’ve gone and added anyone who shares interest in the Etruscans, I’ve found there are very few people here who are in those groups. I wish there was a way to see the members that other people follow. I wonder if some of the people I follow are following Etruscan Scholars who just have not added Etruscan to their interest and so are not coming…[Read more]

So I’m late to the game since I was camping last week but here is my profile. I am glad I did it, I realized some of my conference presentations and other things I’ve done left off my CV

https://hcommons-staging.org/members/magistercarroll/

Just in case anyone else had trouble finding the Humanities Commons homepage for item 1 of Challenge 2…….

Once you log in, click on the Humanities Commons logo in the upper left of screen.

It’s such a useful page, and I’m grateful that this challenge prompted me to find it. 🙂

I’m still working on my profile and need to write the “About” and attach a CV. It’s satisfying to create a space that better represents me than what was there before. I’m here: https://hcommons-staging.org/members/lindalevitt/

About photos, our department brought somebody in to take head shots of faculty and grad students when we updated our web site last year.  This was optional, and I was surprised that more people didn’t do it … well, not really surprised about faculty, but the grad students?  Come on!  They were practically born on the internet but still have a hard…[Read more]

Hello All,

I think this is about as done as it will get before we leave for travels this week:  https://hcommons-staging.org/members/saritablue/.

I’ll be in Germany soon working on some bits of German translation of works I need for a project, and I’ll also be on vacation : ), but I hope to be able to complete more of the profile through c…[Read more]