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HASTAC 2013: Building Academic Community (a virtual contribution)

By Alexis Lothian April 27, 2013 Uncategorized

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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#transformDH at #ASA2012. Marginal Digital Knowledges: A Workshop on Technology, Transformation, and Resistance

By Alexis Lothian November 19, 2012 Uncategorized

Teaching with Twitter. A cautionary tale?

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Reflections on HASTAC2011, politics, institutions

By Alexis Lothian December 6, 2011 Uncategorized

I’ve just come back from the 2011 HASTAC Conference. And if this blog leads you to think that I’ve been to an astonishing number of conferences recently, you’d be right.…

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Mixed metaphors, marked bodies, and the question of “theory”

By Alexis Lothian November 4, 2011 Uncategorized

A ferment of planning is afoot in what I find it difficult not to think of as digital humanities fandom. After Natalia Cecire’s great blog post a couple of weeks…

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Conference Thoughts: Queer Studies and the Digital Humanities

By Alexis Lothian October 18, 2011 Uncategorized

This weekend, I attended the LA Queer Studies conference. I’ve been every year since I first moved to LA in 2006, and presented three times; it’s a wonderful, welcoming conference…

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MLA 2011 and #mla11: on tweeting conventions

By Alexis Lothian January 10, 2011 Uncategorized

I’ve just spent quite an exhiliarating weekend attending the Modern Language Association in Los Angeles. MLA had previously been known to me by reputation as a terrifyingly large conference, a…

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open universities

By Alexis Lothian October 23, 2010 Uncategorized

Over at HASTAC, there’s an interesting conversation going on about Openness in Academia. I am especially enjoying the ways different definitions of openness are being connected and examined: accessibility not…

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HASTAC crosspost; fandom, academia, and knowledge production

By Alexis Lothian September 4, 2010 Uncategorized

I’m involved in the Duke University and MacArthur-sponsored HASTAC this year, as a HASTAC scholar. I’ve been following the conversations and events associated with HASTAC and its various members for…

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Alexis Lothian

Associate Professor in The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studes; Core Faculty in Design Cultures and Creativity; Affiliate Faculty in American Studies, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. University of Maryland College Park

Author, Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility (NYU Press, 2018)

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