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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Draining the Amazon’s Swamp in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoFull collection of essays written during my undergraduate and graduate studies in literature.
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Amy Chen deposited Playing Around with Book History: Codex Conquest and Mark in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoStudents learn more when they play—while the value of play often is emphasized only for those early in their education, play has a role in higher education as well. To teach book history across time and space, I developed two card games: Codex Conquest (http://codexconquest.lib.uiowa.edu/) and Mark (under development: h…[Read more]
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Amy Chen deposited Teaching Book History through Card Games: Codex Conquest and Mark in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoTeaching Book History through Card Games: Codex Conquest and Mark
Amy Hildreth Chen, English and American Literature Librarian, University of Iowa
Students learn more when they play—while the value of play often is emphasized only for those early in their education, play has a role in higher education as well. To teach book history across t…[Read more] -
Jason Helms deposited The Invisibility of Digital Labor (slides) in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoDigital 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]
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Jason Helms deposited The Invisibility of Digital Labor in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoDigital 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]
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Jason Helms deposited The High Cost of Love: Passive Exploitation of Labor in DH and DM Courses (slides) in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoOne 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]
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Jason Helms deposited The High Cost of Love: Passive Exploitation of Labor in DH and DM Courses in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoOne 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]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited The Nature of Metallic Matter: Materials-Based Methods in the Study of Mining in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoIn 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]
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Matthew K. Gold deposited Issues of Labor, Credit, and Care in Peer-to-Peer Review Processes in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis 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]
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Helen Davies deposited Recovery and Loss: (Multispectral) Imaging and Image Rights in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoSingle 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]
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Harriett Green deposited “Getting Credit in Digital Publishing and Digital Humanities” panel response in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoThe response paper given by Harriett Green, panel presider, for Session #613, “Getting Credit in Digital Publishing and Digital Humanities” .
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Grant Glass deposited Digital Humanities is No Object in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoAbout my Spring 2018 Writing Class: Writing in the Digital Humanities
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Vanessa Ceia deposited Mapping the Movida: Re-Imagining Counterculture in Late 20th-Century Spain in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoVanessa 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]
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Ellen McClure started the topic Panel 526: The Turn to Religion in Seventeenth-Century French Studies in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoHere are the files that our roundtable discussants (Dalia Judovitz, Flynn Cratty, Hall Bjornstad, Joy Palacios, Richard Hoffman Reinhardt) based their interventions on. (Unable to upload Dalia’s powerpoint here, but it can be requested).
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William Nichols deposited Telling the Story of Iberian Studies: Spaces of Convergence and the Defense of the Humanities in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis 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.
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Amanda L. Watson deposited Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoSlides from MLA 2019 session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” an open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum.
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Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Slavery’s Ghosts and the Haunted Housing Crisis: On Narrative Economy and Circum-Atlantic Memory in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoIn 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]
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Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Slavery’s Ghosts and the Haunted Housing Crisis: On Narrative Economy and Circum-Atlantic Memory in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoIn 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]
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Sabrina Lee deposited Searching the Silence: Women Writers and Romance Fiction in HathiTrust in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis 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]
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Whitney Sperrazza deposited Patterns of Violence: Critical Making and the She/Her/Hers of Early Modern Poetry in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoShort paper presented for MLA 2019 Session 417 – “Critical Computation: What’s Next?”
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