Sara Santos
,@sarastarbucksantos
14
Following
13
Followers
Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
-
Hello everyone! Like Charlie, I took this challenge as an opportunity to write a little bit about my experience doing this summer camp and my plans for my website/overall digital presence going forward. I tried to answer all of the questions in the challenge, albeit in a slightly different order. You can read it here.
Thanks again to Caitlin for guiding us through the process and to HC for coming up with such a fun project!
-
Hello everyone!
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks playing around with the website and trying out some of the plugins and widgets that HC WordPress offers, and added some to my website. I found the Creative Commons configurator very helpful in figuring out the different levels of protection/sharing in OA works, and I might use it in the future. I also experimented a little bit with the Google Map and Google Doc embedders and might take advantage of them in the future. But mostly I took some time to figure out what I wanted my website to be and how the system itself might help me achieve it. So my website is currently a combination of blog and project showcase, a place to share my pedagogical and research projects with a larger audience, but also to think through the ideas as they’re coming up (and before I submit them to my dissertation committee!).One thing that I’m becoming increasingly aware of is how un/responsive the theme I’ve picked can be (for example, some of the super cool widgets mentioned in this week’s mini-challenge aren’t available in my theme), so I might change it in the future. For now, here’s my updated website, with some new content. Enjoy!
-
I just created a site! You can find it here. As you can tell, it’s still very much a bare-bones structure, and my only post is an introductory one (nothing much new besides a link to what I think is the funniest Zizek “lecture” to date). I found the examples linked in the challenge really helpful, as they gave me a sense of what scholars are using the HC sites for. Ultimately, I decided that mine would be a combination of blog and personal site where I showcase my academic/professional accomplishments (conferences, publications, etc.), but also post more reflective pieces of some of my teaching experiments and research tangents. I’ve had a site in the past (mostly for a grad course), but I never did much with it. So I’m hoping that these challenges will give me some momentum to continue building this page and, with it, my online presence! Next step: create content for each one my sections!
-
These tools are extremely helpful! I experimented a little bit with the Altmetric bookmarklet on a few articles to see what scholars in my area of interest are saying about those articles/subjects. I found the demographic and geographical breakdown particularly interesting, because it made me much more aware of who might be reading my own work. Most of the articles I downloaded for my own research tended to draw a larger crowd from the social sciences and philosophy than from English literature, which made me realize that my work may circulate in much more interdisciplinary circles than I originally thought. This also got me thinking about strategies (rhetorical, generic, etc.) that I can use to tailor my work to that audience that I’m now more aware of.
I’d love to hear people’s thoughts on how this type of audience awareness has influenced, and influences now, your writing/presentation process, and whether Altmetric has changed your perspective in any way!
It’s also great to see the reach that our work has on social media platforms like Twitter!
-
I echo Dana’s comment! This challenge really helped me figure out what kinds of resources are available in the H Commons repository, as well as how to find resources best suited to my research. To complete the challenge, I decided to look up articles related to my dissertation topic. At first, I wasn’t finding much, but I think it’s because I plugged in very specific terms. But then I started using the “group” and “subject” of the few articles I was interested in to find similar material – this was a very effective strategy! I ended up downloading a handful of articles and a couple of cli-fi/environmental lit syllabi.
For the second part of the challenge, I uploaded a paper I presented recently in an Edwidge Danticat panel at ALA, which I shared to Postcolonial Studies and the summer camp group.
The Creative Commons License page was very helpful in understanding the different levels of “protection” of your work online. In fact, thanks to @caitlinduffy49 for explaining things so clearly in each blog post and providing such helpful tips when completing each challenge!
-
I took on the mini challenge and created a new group titled “Neoliberal Fiction.” As with many of the campers, I initially struggled to find groups specifically tailored to my fields of interest, specifically neoliberalism and its connections with literature and culture. Part of my dissertation project has to do with tracing the emerging genre of the neoliberal novel, so I created this new group in order to start a more cohesive conversation about what neoliberalism and neoliberal fiction really mean. More details in my first post!
I invite any and all interested in these topics to join!
-
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 terms, so I broadened the search and found that there’s a large number of people on HCommons with interest in ecocriticism and Global South lit. I think the slightly more challenging part was starting a discussion. I almost never participate in these group discussions, so this time I created a discussion thread using one of the strategies suggested by our awesome camp director. I asked the Animal Studies group which 3 key texts they would recommend to anyone in the field of animal and environmental studies. We’ll see what replies I get!
Overall, this challenge was helpful in encouraging me to engage more actively in digital communities!
-
Hello! Click here for my updated profile! I’ve had one for some months, but I’ve updated the information on most sections – also, new profile pic!
A couple of things that came to my mind while working on the profile were: 1) is my current picture “appropriate” for an academic profile? 2) is there a preferred length for the “about” section? In other words, how long is “too long”?
-
Hello! I’m Sara Santos and I’m a 3rd year PhD student – also in the English Department at Stony Brook. My work focuses on biopolitics, posthumanism and ecocriticism in contemporary literature. My dissertation will look at trajectories of becoming non/posthuman in neoliberal spaces of security – basically, I just want an excuse to write about walls, zombies and Foucault! I’ve had an HCommons profile for a few months, but haven’t done much with it. So I’m looking forward to learning how to best use this platform to share knowledge/materials, as well as interact and collaborate with other academics. Above all, I want to work on developing a stronger digital (academic and professional) presence.
A couple of questions I’d like this summer camp to address are:
1) Is it unprofessional to tweet about wine?
2) What is the meaning of life?No pressure at all…
-
