It’s the final week (read: breathless sprint) before the design charrette for the Transliteracies Research-Oriented Social Environment to take place on Feb. 26th. I’ve just finished a research report on WorldCat Identities to go up today, and then I, along with the other two project coordinators, will be rushing to get everything together, and *fingers …
Traces of Places
Another whirlwind week, and though I’m not, I already feel behind… Sometimes, though, I will gladly let myself fall slightly behind professionally, if I am given an opportunity to participate in something more significant. Something that will make me stop and reevaluate myself and my reasons for pursuing this profession that so many have warned …
Race, Ethnicity, and Diaspora in the Digital Age
Over the past month or so, I’ve been working with a graduate student in Anthropology from the University of Florida, Edward Gonzalez-Tennant, to co-host a HASTAC Scholars forum, on race and ethnicity in the digital age. With the help and guidance of the wonderful Fiona Barnett, director of the HASTAC Scholars program, it has finally …
Re: Nerds of Color
This morning Racialicious posted a blog by performance poet and activist Bao Phi, titled NOCs (Nerds of Color) (Originally posted in the Star Tribune Your Voices Blog). Thoughtful and beautifully written, the blog addresses the pressing, yet often ignored, issues of cultural appropriation, representation and stereotypes, and invisibility of people of color within the further …
Second-Year Blitz
So there’s a lot going on at the moment… Aside from trying to get this blog up to speed (at the moment my travel entries start and end in May 2008–just slightly behind schedule there), I’m working on my prospectus and putting together my dissertation committee. No one, no matter how many advanced grads you …
First Quals Success (more or less)!
After months of reading, and studying, and cramming, my first qualifying exams are behind me! Woohoo! Here in our program it’s an oral exam in three specific reading lists. My lists were: U.S. Race and Ethnicity Literatures, Theories of Gender and Sexuality, and Literature and Theory of Technology. The exam was not nearly as horrifying …
Slowly But Surely
I’ll be updating this blog for the next few months, with the hopes of eventually getting all of my Middle East CouchSurfing adventures up. Bear with me!
Fez
Today, we realized that we have been operating in the wrong time zone… two hours ahead of the time in Spain. What was that? I’m not going to be getting my PhD or anything. We thought that Spain and Morocco were in the same time zone (I mean, it’s a 45 minute ferry ride away!) …
Tangier, Day 2
Today was devoted entirely to wandering about the medina in Tangier so we could get to the American Legation Museum (about all the famous American ex-pats who have lived in Morocco) and the Casbah where the king lived back in the olden days. We never found the American Legation Museum (that medina is a frigging …
First day in Morocco
We left Tarifa, Spain this morning and took the ferry from Tarifa to Tangier. And what a difference a 45 minute ferry ride makes! The instant we got off the ferry we were accosted by taxi cab drivers who were, to be completely honest, rather scary, smelly, and really pushy. We ended up walking out …
