This week, Tavia Nyong’o was on campus for the first installment of Queer Speculations, the LGBT Studies lecture series and conference (April 17!) that I have been working on this…
Read moreWisCon Academic Track: call for proposals
This year, along with Lauren Lacey, I have taken over as co-chair of academic programming at WisCon, the feminist science fiction convention for which I have immense and enduring love.…
Read moreEmbodied digital humanities: a few links
Created to aid citation; only archives my (@alothian)’s tweets as I can’t search back far enough in the timeline for others.
Read moreDC Queer Studies Symposium: Queer Speculations (April 17 2015)
One of the first and most exciting tasks I’ve undertaken in my new job has been inviting speakers and developing the theme for the annual DC Queer Studies Symposium – an…
Read moreYes is No: speculative thoughts on the Scottish referendum
I don’t write a lot here about being Scottish. I haven’t ever made much of it in my academic work, in my professional life. I haven’t lived in Scotland since…
Read moreOn social media, digital politics, and personal change
As I gear up for my first semester at the University of Maryland, I’m thinking a lot about academic and social positionings, offline and on. More particularly, about my own…
Read moreCollaborations
My summer has thus far been spent moving, with little time for web updates. But I have had two collaborative pieces come out in the past few months, and not…
Read moreNew worlds
I am overdue on a few announcements here; let me start with the biggest one. This fall, I will be moving to the Washington, DC area to start a new…
Read moreA Foretaste of the Feminist Future, circa 1889
I’m excited to announce that the 1889 feminist utopia to which I wrote the introduction, New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett, is now in print…
Read moreMLA: Notes from “Tumblr Vulnerabilities”
My second panel at MLA was a roundtable on “Tumblr Vulnerabilities” with Aren Aizura, Roy Perez, Nick Mitchell, Kara Jesella, and Jeanne Vaccaro. My notes are a little scattered, but…
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