Yesterday, I had the pleasure of visiting Fresno State University to give a talk at Manning Library to a digital humanities focused Faculty Learning Community about digital pedagogy and digital humanities. Many thanks to David Drexler for the invitation, and to John Beynon and Kathee Godfrey for their hospitality! I’m sharing the talk and slides below. …
I just got word that our proposal for the American Studies Association 2014 was accepted! The conference theme will be: “The Fun and the Fury: New Dialectics of Pleasure and Pain In the Post-American Century,” and the conference itself will take place November 6-9, 2014 at the Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles, CA. The proposal is …
Our lovely friends at #dhpoco, Adeline Koh and Roopika Risam, are guest editing a special upcoming issue of Ada, A journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, and it looks awesome. The special #dhpoco issue will address Gender, Globalization, and the Digital. According to the CFP (linked above): In this issue we seek essays that explore …
A friend forwarded an interesting CFP to me today for a special issue of the online journal, Review of International American Studies. Looks like a great opportunity for some Global Outlook:DH and #transformDH work! I’m sharing the entirety of the CFP below since I haven’t seen it online yet… Print technology and the discovery of the …
I got some amazing news when my good friend and WOC and DH frolleague Adeline Koh announced that she was the new Digital Humanities editor for the brand new Asian and Asian American Studies journal Verge: Studies in Global Asias. The section she will be editing is called “Interface,” and she is currently looking for …
Below is the talk I gave as part of a roundtable on race in the digital humanities at CESA2013. It really should have included “Being a Woman of Color in the digital humanities” as part of the title, but much of the presentation was a result of observations I made as the conference approached, and …
A couple of dear frolleagues, Adeline Koh and Roopika Risam, working at the intersections of digital humanities and postcolonial (poco) studies have created a new blog, dhpoco, that is really impressive in terms of bridging the social play aspects of the digital with their own historically and politically situated work in postcolonial, ethnic, and cultural studies. Their …
Just a quick note to say I’ve arrived home, safe and sound, following a lightning trip to Sweden. Had a great time and now I have to survive finals week, a mock interview, writing deadlines, prepping my new class and so on and so on until MLA in January, where I’ll be speaking on a …
I’m very honored to be part of an exciting panel proposal for MLA13 in Boston, titled, “Representing Race: Silence in the Digital Humanities.” Alondra Nelson (!!!) will be responding to a roundtable consisting myself and four other amazing junior scholars, including a fellow #transformDHer, Moya Bailey.
This last weekend was spent at the American Studies Association where I participated in panel with my amazing colleagues Amanda Phillips, Alexis Lothian, Melanie Kohnen, Marta Rivera Monclova, Tanner Higgin, and moderated by the amazingly supportive Anna Everett. The roundtable featured graduate students and new PhDs working in Queer Studies and Ethnic Studies each presenting …
