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“Our City”: Images of Home in Our Marathon, The Boston Bombing Digital Archive
Note: The following post is adapted from remarks I gave at the 2016 American Studies Association Conference on a panel titled “Home Screens: Digitizing Belonging and Place in American Studies.” Thanks to my fellow presenters and attendees for their participation, to Alicia Peaker and the rest of the Our Marathon project team, and to Carrie…
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Fringe, Speculative Fiction, Ideas of Order, and Indeterminacy
Editor’s Note: I’m migrating some content from older web presences onto my current site. I’m currently (December 2016) re-watching Fringe as I spend some time home for the holidays, so I wanted to re-visit this post I originally wrote back in April 2011. Possible SPOILERS up to Season 3 of Fringe. Fringe is one of my…
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Grad Student DH Roundtable in Common-place
I wrote about my experiences doing digital humanities work as a graduate student over at Common-place. Here’s a snippet: While I’ve heard that the phrase “public humanities” makes some people want to set their hair on fire, I’ve found that the investments many digital humanities practitioners place in public-facing work have been particularly important, and I…
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GIF Today, Gone Tomorrow: Intellectual Property, Digital Curation, and Professional Wrestling
The weekend of August 19-21 was pretty busy for professional wrestling fans. WWE set up shop at the Barclays Center for not one, but two major shows: NXT Takeover: Brooklyn II, a showcase for its “minor league” developmental brand, and SummerSlam, one of the main roster’s biggest events of the year. There was a ton of exciting in-ring…
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Digital Public Humanities: Reflections On Teaching A Graduate-Level Course in Digital Humanities and Public History
I recently wrapped up teaching duties on a course in Digital Public Humanities, a class offered via Brown University’s Public Humanities M.A. program. You can view the course site, which includes our syllabus, major readings, and a blog, here. This class was both my first digital humanities course and the first class I ever taught…