Non-sentient animals have appeared in the Star Wars universe in roles both integral and decorative since A New Hope premiered in 1977. From beasts of burden like the dewbacks and banthas of Tatooine and the Gungans’ kaadu, to monsters like the wampa, rathtar, and dianoga; to the myriad of critters large and small that inhabit interstellar e…[Read more]

Digital humanists have a labor problem, but it’s not what you might think. In this chapter, I describe the problem of student labor in digital humanities as I see it, and examine some of the structural issues that drive the use of student labor. I place the labor economy of digital humanities projects within the broader context of the innovation e…[Read more]

My research bridges my interests in media history, in particular history of the book, with my duties helping catalyze conversations around digital humanities, diversity, and social justice in an academic library at a large public university. This summer’s reading has gelled around a couple of slowly converging topics – information literacy and min…[Read more]

Article on an American Anti-Slavery Society periodical, the ‘Slave’s Friend,’ which ran from 1836 to 1839. The author describes the abolitionist sentiment and the animal metaphor.

The author examines the contribution of illustrated editions of Susannah Rowson’s 1791 novel ‘Charlotte Temple’ to the novel’s curious afterlife. Reprinted in Philadelphia in 1794, ‘Charlotte Temple’ became the object of a readerly cult that inspired visits to a gravesite in Trinity Churchyard as well as intimate engagements with the material…[Read more]