My colleague Helene Williams (University of Washington iSchool) and I have been working on this project for a few months now, and since we’re presenting on it at DLF, we wanted to share a tiny piece of that presentation. We’re … Continue reading →

  There was a point in my digital humanities learning development when I knew that I wanted a DH job, and was trying to sort out what I could do to make getting one more likely. I wasn’t sure whether … Continue reading →

Yesterday I had the great pleasure of speaking to graduate students at U Toronto as one of the panelists on a DH Roundtable organized by Matt Schneider and Elisa Tersigni. The graduate students asked excellent questions, and I really appreciated the … Continue reading →

As a member of the CLIR/DLF Post-Doctoral Fellows program, I attended this fall’s CNI meeting with the rest of the cohort of 1st year CLIR postdocs — a special treat, since attendance at CNI is normally restricted to two people … Continue reading →

I’m gearing up for #AcWriMo starting Saturday, November 1st — and doing so has made me realize that I’ve been neglecting this site. Since my last post, I’ve joined the Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship at McMaster University as a … Continue reading →

I was tweeting about this, and it occurred to me that it would make a good short blog post. Here it is: Do nothing in isolation: always connect the events. If you have a guest speaker talking about a particular … Continue reading →

Posting here has been light this summer as I have been freelancing, temping, revising articles to submit for publication, etc. That trend of light posting is likely to continue for a little while, but with the diss out of the … Continue reading →

See also: Part 1. Since writing the first part of my response, I have: participated in the “DH for Chairs and Deans” workshop at DHSI, facilitated by Ray Siemens and John Unsworth; and attended a plenary session, and follow-up discussion on … Continue reading →

I started learning how to be a graphic designer 5 or 6 years ago, when I started helping out the UW Textual Studies Department with promotional posters for visiting speakers. Visual design has a definite learning curve (as does working … Continue reading →

In digital humanities, it is especially important to acknowledge your collaborators, and to convey the work that went into a particular project. I think that the same applies for Ph.D. dissertations, and thus I am very pleased to include my … Continue reading →