Digital scholarship, particularly with digital monographs, requires a great deal of work that traditional scholarship does not. The presenter has authored a digital monograph (published 2017) and written and co-written web texts on the methodologies of digital scholarship and critical making (both currently under review). While digital tools can…[Read more]

One of the most salient aspects of DH projects is that they are fun to create. DH scholars love to make amazing new tools that solve tangible problems. This makes teaching DH a joy: students work harder on DH assignments because the assignments demand and reward their attention. When work is fun, it doesn’t feel like work. Rather than being a…[Read more]

One of the most salient aspects of DH projects is that they are fun to create. DH scholars love to make amazing new tools that solve tangible problems. This makes teaching DH a joy: students work harder on DH assignments because the assignments demand and reward their attention. When work is fun, it doesn’t feel like work. Rather than being a…[Read more]

In 1526, royal refiner and natural historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) praised the singular quality of the “muchos tesoros de oro labrado / en poder delos indios q̄ se hā cōquistado” (lxv, v). By 1535, however, he had to define what, exactly, he meant by gold: “No hablo aquí en el oro que se ha habido por rescates, o en la guerra, ni…[Read more]

This talk focuses on peer review models, considering issues of labor and credit within them. It then turns to the ethos of care to discuss how peer-to-peer review processes can be structure with care to ensure that participant labor is valued. The talk ends with a focus on the nature of the labor in peer-to-peer review, arguing that it is…[Read more]

Single author works do not properly represent the multifaceted collaboration that goes into a digital humanities project. At the Lazarus Project, a multispectral imaging initiative based out of the University of Rochester, we are experimenting with new modes of collaborative publishing. Furthermore, as a multispectral imaging project, we recover…[Read more]

The response paper given by Harriett Green, panel presider, for Session #613, “Getting Credit in Digital Publishing and Digital Humanities” .

About my Spring 2018 Writing Class: Writing in the Digital Humanities
Prepared for MLA 2019, Session 89: What do we teach when we teach DH?

Vanessa Ceia’s talk features her project, “Mapping the Movida,” which visualizes the Movida, a sociological phenomenon and cultural renaissance that emerged in Madrid during the first decade of Spanish democracy (1976-1986). Ceia demonstrates how combining the use of digital tools and deep mapping techniques with traditional archival resea…[Read more]

This is a paper that I presented at the 2019 MLA in Chicago. In this paper I situate discussions of the field of Iberian Studies within the context of the crisis of the Humanities and the future of Cultural Studies.

Slides from MLA 2019 session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” an open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum.

In light of (re)new(ed) interest in focusing interdisciplinary scholarly attention on the history of capitalism – a focus captured in Edward Baptist’s recent book, The Half has Never Been Told – this essay reads Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy as a key text for considering the history of capitalism as central to conceptions of circum-…[Read more]

This is a panel paper for “Critical Computation: What’s Next?” This paper discusses an unpublished aspect of the article “The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction,” published in Cultural Analytics in 2018. In this paper I discuss ways in which we (Ted Underwood, David Bamman, and I) tried to explain the decline of women writers in…[Read more]

Short paper presented for MLA 2019 Session 417 – “Critical Computation: What’s Next?”

Short paper presented for MLA 2019 Session 417 – “Critical Computation: What’s Next?”

Paper for Session 417: Critical Computation: What’s Next?

This presentation explains my undergrad/grad seminar “East Asian DH” (EALC111/511) at University of Pennsylvania in Spring 2018. I focus on the survey format of the seminar, as dictated by the challenge of trying to reach students working on many aspects of the un-discipline of East Asian studies, which encompasses a large region, at least three…[Read more]