This past week, I was supposed to be in Ottawa, Canada, on the traditional unceded land of the Kitchissippi Omàmiwininì Anishinabeg, or Algonquin Peoples, with a handful of my colleagues for the DH 2020 conference. But as with most things, plans changed with the emergence and proliferation of COVID-19. For Asians and Asian Americans, this …
Feminist Anti-racist Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Pratt Institute
Updated to include additional links and acknowledgements (thanks, Siân and @bigxphilly!). Back in October, I had the pleasure of hosting a Feminist Anti-racist Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Pratt Institute at the invitation of Minh-Ha Pham (Media Studies) and Holly Wilson (Library) for a graduate-level class. I’m sharing my slides below, sadly without much context, but hopefully …
It’s Been a Minute: A Whirlwind Year of Major Life Changes
Welp, it’s been over a year since I last posted to this site. The world is a trash fire and everything is awful, but I’m doing fairly well, considering. It’s not like I’m worried about national and international crises, or that my family and I could be denaturalized or anything. Right? Right?! Anyway… The last …
Talk: #ICA17 Closing Plenary
Recently, I was invited to participate in the closing plenary about digital pedagogy for the International Communications Association in San Diego. Many, many thanks to Paula Gardner, President Elect of ICA and former fellow FemTechNet Co-Facilitator, for the invitation to speak, and for curating such a welcoming, inclusive, and feminist conference. It was reflected in …
Conference: Minor Transnationalism 2.0 at UCLA May 19th-20
Next Friday, I’ll be at UCLA for the Minor Transnationalisms Reunion Conference. I’ll be presenting some newer work on mediated and imagined spaces of living and working in Dubai and Silicon Valley. If you’re in the area, please do join us in Royce Hall 309. I’ll be there on Friday, and am looking forward to …
Workshop: DH Tools Across Disciplines, Santa Clara University
This past week, I had the pleasure of leading a workshop on using “Digital Humanities Tools Across Disciplines” at Santa Clara University to their newly formed Center for Arts and Humanities faculty working group in digital humanities and their library. Many thanks to Michelle Burnham and Amy Lueck for the invitation and for the entire …
NWSA 2016: Radicalizing the Curriculum and Decolonizing the Canon
This weekend, I’m participating in a workshop at the National Women’s Studies Association entitled “Radicalizing the Curriculum and Decolonizing the Canon,” along with my dear colleagues, Kim Brillante Knight (UT Dallas), Kris McAbee (University of Arkansas, Little Rock), Jessica C. Murphy (UT Dallas), Jen Shook (Grinnell College). I’m sharing some preliminary and entirely incomplete notes here to accompany my …
Digital Projects
While USC’s Scalar server was down due to university-wide network issues this past weekend, I installed my own instance of Scalar on my Reclaim Hosting domain and tested it out by creating this Digital Projects book. It’s an incredibly simple book that curates my collaborative projects and teaching and visualizes them neatly. If you’re interested …
Workshop: Whittier.Domains
Earlier this summer I led a short workshop on Whittier.Domains and building your web presence for Whittier College‘s Poet Seminar Series hosted by Kristin Wiberg and the President’s office. What follows are some notes and slides from the presentation I had planned (technical issues meant my flash drive was not detected by the podium computer, so …
Mellon Mays Website Building/Reading Workshop
For this exercise, in small groups, I want you to pick two of the following professional websites and examine them for the production and curation of professional academic identity. Matthew K. Gold Amanda Phillips Ann M. Little Miriam Posner Jessica Marie Johnson Lisa Nakamura Kim Knight Questions to consider: How is the individual identifying him/her/their self? …
