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Martin Paul Eve deposited Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThis book is the first full-length monograph to bring a range of computational methods to bear in a sustained fashion, on a single novel, at the micro-level. While most contemporary digital studies are interested in distant-reading paradigms for large-scale literary history – using their digital methods as a telescope – following calls by Alan Liu…[Read more]
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Danica Savonick deposited Syllabus for Digital Divides: Race, Class, and Gender in the Age of the Internet in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoSyllabus for an upper-level English seminar at SUNY Cortland | Is Google racist? Is Wikipedia sexist? In this course, we will critically reflect on the digital tools and platforms that mediate so much of our daily lives. More specifically, we will explore how digital technologies can reproduce and challenge conditions of racial, class, and gender…[Read more]
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited Books.Files: Preservation of Digital Assets in the Contemporary Publishing Industry (A Report) in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe book publishing industry is an important social, cultural, and economic institution whose records deserve to be preserved for the public good. Books.Files was an exploratory project funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation aimed at assessing the archival value of digital assets in the contemporary publishing industry for stakeholders…[Read more]
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited Books.Files: Preservation of Digital Assets in the Contemporary Publishing Industry (A Report) in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe book publishing industry is an important social, cultural, and economic institution whose records deserve to be preserved for the public good. Books.Files was an exploratory project funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation aimed at assessing the archival value of digital assets in the contemporary publishing industry for stakeholders…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Joint Legal Studies/American Studies Assistant Professor of Instruction in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoNorthwestern University is hiring an Assistant Professor of Instruction to be appointed jointly in the Legal Studies program and the American Studies program. This is a full-time, benefits eligible position with a path to promotion. The initial contract is for two years.
The Assistant Professor of Instruction will offer six courses per year…[Read more]
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Inés Vañó García started the topic CFP – Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (6/1/20) in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe peer-reviewed and open access Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is now accepting submissions for its upcoming General Issue with a Forum on Data and Computational Pedagogy edited by Gregory Palermo (Northeastern University) & Brandon Walsh (University of Virginia Library) with the collaboration of Kelly Hammond (CUNY Graduate C…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited Working towards a Feminist Printing History in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoWhat would a feminist history of printing look like if it’s not focused on recovering the history of women printing? Delivered as the 2018 APHA Lieberman Lecture and forthcoming from the APHA journal, Printing History.
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Laura Forsberg started the topic MLA 2021 Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography forum cfps in the discussion
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoAre you using innovative strategies to teach book history, print cultures and lexicography? Does your research explore the nature of collections? Please consider submitting an abstract for one of our forum’s two panels for MLA 2021. We have just extended the deadline to March 16.
Guaranteed session: From the Scribal to the Digital: The Labor of…[Read more]
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Élika Ortega started the topic Paradigms of Difference: Modern Languages+Digital Humanities in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis is the third session organized by the Forum in Digital Humanities (DH) dealing with the intersections of Modern Languages (ML) and DH. In both 2019 and 2020, the discussions have focused on the contributions that ML makes to DH, and on the way both fields intersect critically. Building up on these discussions, for 2021, we’re hoping to a…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: Law and the Humanities Forum panels at MLA 2021 in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoDear all,
Please see below for three panels sponsored by the Law and the Humanities Forum at MLA 2021. If you have any questions, please let us know.
Best wishes,
Melissa Ganz
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Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention
Toronto, January 7-10, 2021
1. Law at the Border (Guaranteed Session)
Papers on how law is m…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Democratizing the American University,” Inside Higher Ed in the group
Academic Job Market Support Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months ago“Democratizing the American University” argues for a more democratic approach to academic appointments within the US academy.
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Ted Underwood deposited Machine Learning and Human Perspective in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoNumbers appear to have limited value for literary study, since our discipline is usually more concerned to explore differences of interpretation than to describe the objective features of literary works. But it may be time to re-examine the assumption that numbers are only useful for objective description. Machine learning algorithms are actually…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Digital Wallace: Networked Pedagogies and Distributed Reading in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoThis is the peer-reviewed submission version of the essay, which focuses on the role that digital communication platforms can play in teaching and engaging with Wallace’s work.
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