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Thank you for this summer camp experience.
I’m most excited about finding a home for Virtual Hemingway, which now lists more than 400 Hemingway-related sites! I am also pleased to have a site about my academic accomplishments. I plan to add the URL to my email signature to show off all this work!
Austen scholar Devoney Looser just published an article about the importance of this kind of work in the Chronicle of Higher Education:
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Writing-a-Book-or-Article-/243911
Her article validated the time I was spending on creating my site. (You might want to consider using it in future summer camps.)
One question I have is whether there’s a maximum size limit for what we create on Humanities Commons. Another question I have is whether Virtual Hemingway will turn up in search engine results–would students have to search Humanities Commons in order to find it?
I hope to maintain the site–in fact, I hope to grow Virtual Hemingway to more than 500 links, which seems pretty doable. I plan to update at least quarterly, which seems more reasonable to me than trying for weekly or monthly, given my heavy teaching load.
I think the pace of this course was just right. The explanations of how to do various tasks were very clear and did not assume much technical knowledge, so that was a huge plus. I think it might be helpful to be clearer that the plug-ins and widgets seem to pertain only to blogs.
I wish more people had stuck with the summer camp–the attrition rate seems to have been awfully high. But I don’t know what you could have done to improve that.
MLA needs to publicize the Humanities Commons more effectively and demonstrate what faculty can do with it. I’m a longtime member and didn’t really understand what was available to me for free!
Thank you for all your work, Caitlin. My experience was positive, and I would recommend this camp to others.
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I am still trying to get permission to share some of my published work in CORE, but meanwhile I found an excellent article in CORE that might be of interest to many current and aspiring academics: Devoney Looser’s essay “Me and My Shadow C.V.,” about the many failures and rejections we have to face in submitting conference proposals, publishing essays, and applying for grants. I found it weirdly encouraging–it would never have occurred to me to apply for the same grant eight times. I need to apply for more grants and be more persistent!
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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. Still trying to find somewhere I could logically post a question about my research interests.
Lisa
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Here’s my profile, although I expect I’ll keep tinkering with it as we go on:
https://hcommons-staging.org/members/ltyler/
Lisa
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I’m Lisa, and I teach composition, literature, and business communications at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. My third and fourth books (one on contemporary American playwright Marsha Norman, and the other an edited collection on Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway) are coming out in 2019, so I would like to develop more of a digital presence than I currently have. I’ve created a profile here but not much else (not even a photo yet!) and would like guidance (and deadlines!) to get started.
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I didn’t realize I could create a whole separate website using the Humanities Commons, so this Summer Camp has been very useful to me. I’ve been trying to figure out a space to host Virtual Hemingway, a digital project consisting of more than 250 links to (mostly reputable) Hemingway-related material online. While it’s taken me a bit of time, the site is now up! You can see it at
virtualhemingway.hcommons-staging.org/
I hope to compile more than 300 links eventually, but I am happy with my progress so far.
Lisa Tyler
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