The fifth HASTAC conference, HASTAC 2013: The Storm of Progress, is taking place in Toronto this weekend. I can’t be there, but Fiona Barnett, the amazing and wonderful director of…
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I had a wonderful and inspiring time at the Eaton/Science Fiction Research Association conference in Riverside last weekend. I want to start by posting my own paper, though, which I…
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This panel inspired some intensely heated discussions on Twitter. Knowing that the talks from these great speakers were likely to be complex and dense, I decided to make notes offline…
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As the year draws to a close and I celebrate the successful (I hope; still haven’t seen my student evals) completion of my first semester as an assistant professor, I’m…
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Teaching with Twitter. A cautionary tale?
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This is the last of the panels in which I typed frantic and exhaustive notes. As always, these are my interpretations and may be wrong––contact the panelists or look up…
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Another set of notes/transcripts from a wi-fi-less panel at American Studies. As before, these notes are my interpretation of the participants’ words and may be misguided. Contact them or read…
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A combination of tweets and notes, archiving the #ASA2012 panel with Shelley Streeby, Curtis Marez, Chera Kee, Chris Cunningham, and Emma Perez.
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I’m continuing to post my notes from ASA panels, now that I’ve returned from the conference and have had a chance to fix the most egregious of the typoes. I’m…
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I’m at the American Studies Association Annual Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It’s an amazing experience, as ASA always is. I’ve become very committed to documenting the conferences I…
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