Chair: Jay Clayton (Vanderbilt) Rachel Bowser (Georgia Gwinnett) and Brian Croxall (Emory), “Mobility, Leisure, and Annihilation in Steampunk Transport Narratives” Kathryn Crowther (Georgia Perimeter), “From Steam Arms to Brass Goggles: Steampunk, Prostheses, and Disability.” Lisa Hager (Wisconsin-Waukesha), “An Alternate History of Sexuality: Victorian Gender in Scott Westerfield’s Leviathan trilogy.” Roger Whitson (Washington State), “Victorian Design […]
What do you know about Maker Culture? Give you an introduction to: Its history Some of the politics surrounding it Some of the things people do with it. Introduce and Demo the Arduino Microprocessor Maker Culture, Maker Movement, MakerFaire Hackerspaces DIY Fabrication Maker Faires – there have been some in Portland. Also Make Magazine […]
Perhaps nothing better reflects the ambivalence of many people toward advances in science and technology than the co-presence of Gothic tales with science fiction. This is particularly true in the nineteenth-century, as early examples of science fiction were often indistinguishable from the Gothic genre. As Fred Botting observes, “Gothic and science fiction share a […]
Steven Jones argues in The Emergence of the Digital Humanities, that DH after 2008 is quite different from humanities computing due to a cultural phenomenon that William Gibson calls “the eversion:” a term meaning “turning inside out.” For Jones and Gibson, the development of mobile media platforms, the rise of social media applications, and the […]
Hi, so I’m going to start with something that we may or may not know. [Slide 1] Title [Slide 2] This is from the videogame Bioshock Infinite. The game takes place at the turn of the century, on a floating city called Columbia. Now, the plot is pretty complicated, but this character – Elizabeth – […]
The Emergence of the Digital Humanities. Steven E. Jones. Routledge, 2013. ISBN: 978-0415635523. It’s pretty clear that The Emergence of the Digital Humanities was written by a distinguished scholar of British Romanticism. As an expert in everything from Mary and Percy Shelley to nineteenth-century print history and the Neo-luddites, Steven Jones has already wrestled with many of the same […]
I just read Roopika Risam’s great discussion of the controversy surrounding UIUC‘s recension of their hire offer to Dr. Steven Salaita due to inflammatory tweets he posted. (Hint: you should read it too!). Her analysis of the shocking response by Cary Nelson is important as well. As someone who watch Nelson’s 2007 debates with David […]
Nassr20141 from Roger Whitson [Slide 1] So, this is a different version of a presentation I’ve been developing about the relationship between so-called twitterbots and literary studies. I decided to focus most specifically this time on questions about the digital archive, forms of what is called ‘critical making,’ and the very different ways Blake’s work […]
I’m writing this post for a number of reasons, not the least of which is an MLA report that recently gained a number of detractors from various circles within the English Department. Rhetoric and composition scholars are (rightly) pointing out that writing pedagogy has long adopted a number of these reforms. Graduate/adjunct advocates are wondering […]
I decided to write a quick piece about what I’m bringing to #dhsi2014, both because I love the community and because I’ve decided to become as portable as I can when traveling to conferences. I also wanted to crib together Brian Croxall’s amazing post on his conference tech-stack with some things I learned from Lifehacker […]
