Last week, I was invited to participate in the Composing Disability conference at George Washington University. Jonathan Hsy organized a wonderful panel titled Digitial Amphibians: Parallel Lives and Media Publics,…
Read moreDC Queer Studies Conference. 17 April 2015. University of Maryland College Park.
Read moreThis 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 moreAs 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 moreTweetchat on livetweeting at conferences led by @tressiemcphd. Issues covered–the nature of academia, privacy concerns, intellectual property theft. Also significant: Tressie’s follow up blog post http://tressiemc.com/2012/09/30/an-idea-is-a-dangerous-thing-to-quarantine-twittergate/
Read moreUWGB Convocation Session: A Storify narrative about using Twitter to teach students to be better, more visible, and relevant writers.
Read moreI’ve been sharing this news informally for a little while. But I just signed a contract, so it’s time to make my good news public. In the pit of wolves,…
Read moreWhen you begin a PhD, the dissertation (or thesis, depending which part of the world you are in) feels like an unscalable mountain. How will you possibly do so much…
Read moreAt MLA, Jentery Sayers gave a paper that cited the TransformDH Tumblr, which I previously linked at my post on digital praxis as theory––which Jentery also cited in his MLA…
Read moreI’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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