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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Dissertating in Public in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Kathleen Fitzpatrick analyses the sudden isolation graduate students find themselves in during the dissertation process. In the humanities, she observes, graduate students are regularly habituated into an anxiety of intellectual independence whereby sharing ideas, collaboration and publishing work in progress is to be considered suspect and…[Read more]
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Rachel Floyd started the topic Dissertation Research on Professional Development in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year ago
Hello! My name is Rachel Floyd and I’m currently working on my dissertation research in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona. I’m researching the current professional learning needs of recent alumni from graduate foreign language programs, including those no longer in academia. Would you be interested in sup…[Read more]
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Matthew Thomas Miller deposited Advances and Limitations in Open Source Arabic-Script OCR: A Case Study in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
This work presents an accuracy study of the open source OCR engine, Kraken, on the leading Arabic scholarly journal, al-Abhath. In contrast with other commercially available OCR engines, Kraken is shown to be capable of producing highly accurate Arabic-script OCR. The study also assesses the relative accuracy of typeface-specific and generalized…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Jobs in Digital Publishing and Digital Scholarship at University of Pennsylvania in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
Know a talented digital humanist with Python and Docker skills, or someone with experience in digital publishing and an interest in building collaborative partnerships? The growing Research Data and Digital Scholarship team at University of Pennsylvania Libraries is hiring for two new positions—please share!
Digital Scholarship Programmer (…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited Digitizing Chaucerian Debate in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
To encourage classroom dialectic I often turn to the “quitting” structure of “The Canterbury Tales,” within which pilgrims offer requitals of previous tales that range from exuberant acclamations to
raucous attacks. Within these extremes lie productive forms of correction that emerge as subtle critiques, opposing arguments, and timely (or…[Read more] -
Ted Underwood deposited Mapping the Latent Spaces of Culture in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
As neural language models begin to change aspects of everyday life, they understandably attract criticism. This position paper was commissioned for a roundtable at Princeton University, dedicated to one of the most influential critiques: “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?” by Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru,…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Critical Making for Humanist Scholarship in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
Fall 2021, fully online, asynchronous course: Critical making is a practice of making as scholarship, grounded in the humanities, that interweaves design, function, and theory towards born-digital scholarly practice. Engaging in scholarly communication through digital platforms demands attention to code, software, and hardware. This course…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Journal of a Plague Year: Six Voices from American Universities. Part I in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
This is the UNEDITED PRE-PRINT of my section of the multi-authored article “Journal of a Plague Year: Six Voices from American Universities,” ed. Christa Jansohn, which appeared in _Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen_. The other authors were Andrew James Hartley, Jean Howard, Christoph Irmscher, Anthony Lioi, and Lisa S.…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited CFP: Debates in Digital Humanities Pedagogy in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
This is the Call for Papers for Debates in Digital Humanities Pedagogy, which was originally published in January 2019 at http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/cfps/cfp_2019_pedagogy.html. The site no longer exists, so we are depositing it here for archival and citational purposes.
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Some Practices for Publishing the Precariat in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
In this paper, in a panel co-sponsored by the MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession and the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, I summarize some of the structural and practical problems that challenge contingent scholars when they try to publish their work in scholarly journals. I share the record of the online, multimedia,…[Read more]
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Inés Vañó García started the topic CFP: Submissions for JITP Special Issue – Surveillance in Education in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
The peer-reviewed and open access Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is now accepting submissions for its upcoming Special Issue, Surveillance in Education, edited by sava saheli singh (University of Ottawa), Chris Gilliard (Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School), and Chanta Palmer (Lehman College, CUNY).
JITP’s mission is to p…[Read more]
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Paul Fyfe deposited Data and the Human in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Syllabus, course schedule, and major assignments for “Data and the Human” (HON 202-006), an interdisciplinary honors seminar offered in Fall 2020 at NC State University.
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Paul A. Broyles deposited Digital Editions and Version Numbering in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Digital editions are easily modified after they are first published — a state of affairs that poses challenges both for long-term scholarly reference and for various forms of electronic distribution and analysis. This article argues that producers of digital editions should assign meaningful version numbers to their editions and update those v…[Read more]
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Victoria E. Szabo started the topic Teaching DH in the Time of COVID in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Roundtable Discussion at MLA 2022!
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Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Comics and ImageText in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Graduate seminar syllabus: In this seminar, we will explore the contemporary comic, considering literary and cultural works across a range of platforms and markets. Comics are still frequently (and historically) associated with popular culture, and linked to children’s literature and mass media, even as they loom large through big and small screen…[Read more]
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 759C Approaches to the Material Text in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years ago
Syllabus for spring 2021 graduate seminar, “Approaches to the Material Text.” Readings survey in history of the book and related fields. Includes prose introductions synthesizing each week’s readings.
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Jason Boyd deposited Narrative in a Digital Age (Winter 2021) in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years ago
Syllabus for the English ENG921 course, “Narrative in a Digital Age” for the Winter 2021 semester, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.
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Whit Frazier Peterson deposited A Magnificent Blond Beast: Exploring the Implications of Harlem Renaissance Writer Wallace Thurman as Ghostwriter of a Forgotten Celebrity Gossip Memoir in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years ago
In an early version of his article “Harlem Literati in the Twenties,” first published in the Saturday Evening Review in 1940, Langston Hughes offers the curious suggestion that Wallace Thurman was the ghostwriter of Men, Marriage and Me (erroneously written as Men, Women and Checks in Hughes’ article), the tell-all memoir ostensibly by the origi…[Read more]
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Whitney Trettien deposited Digital Humanities: Methods & Materials (grad seminar taught remotely, Fall 2020) in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years ago
The attached is the schedule that I devised for an entry-level, cross-disciplinary grad course in digital humanities, offered across several schools and departments. It is licensed by Creative Commons as Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International, meaning that you are free to adapt and repurpose it for non-commercial uses as long as…[Read more]
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Victoria E. Szabo started the topic #mla21 #s471 Digital Humanities in/and Crisis in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years ago
Saturday, 9 January 2021
1:45 PM – 3:00 PM EST
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Digital humanities has been dubbed an emerging field, a transdisciplinary set of methods, a neoliberal humanities takeover, and a supplement to disciplinary knowledge. A decade after being labeled “the next big thing”—as universities and cultural institutions face social and financial c…[Read more] - Load More