Category: Collaboration
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How a HASTAC Session Inspired Me to Create Class Constitutions: Part 2
To follow up on my promise from last year, I wish to outline my process for creating a class constitution. Having a constitution is a workaround to other’s strategies of collaboritively revising syllabi at the opening of a course. For a variety of reasons, my institution asks that faculty post a publicly-accessible syllabus for courses […]
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Technology Makes the Classroom a Better Place
Technology has long been on the front lines of education. According to Laura Gray in “History of Technology in the Classroom,” in the 1950s, some “people thought televisions might eventually replace classroom teachers.” Source. Over time, technology has improved, leaning towards the idea that it is more beneficial to keep it around in the […]
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Collaborative Close Reading
Close reading – observing the stylistic details of a text in order to analyze an author’s use of language – is a skill taught in almost all college literature classes. Often, I describe this to students as collecting the data that we will eventually use as the evidence to support an interpretation of the text. […]
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How a HASTAC Session Inspired Me to Create Class Constitutions: Part 1, a Reblog
I went to HASTAC 2017 with the aim of learning new teaching methods. I was already reading this blog and testing the ideas for teaching at the Department of Religious Studies.” Below is a link to a post I wrote about that experience on my home institution’s teaching and learning commons. I see it as Part […]
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No Bridge Too Far: Highlights from the Digital Humanities 2018 Conference
What would it mean for the digital humanities to build more bridges in their work? Last week nearly 700 digital humanists went to Mexico City to participate in the annual international Digital Humanities 2018 conference. The conference title was “Puentes/Bridges” – and a central question was how digital humanities can build bridges and create a […]
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Can a Humanities Lecture Course Also Be a Publication Workshop?
[Author’s note: This post was adapted from a how-to guide that accompanied the launching of The Godfather: Anatomy of a Film, a digital project that itself grew out of a 45-person lecture course on “The Seventies” that I taught at Cal in Spring 2018. The original post can be found here.] “The Godfather: Anatomy of a Film”—with […]
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A new online edition of Frankenstein
Dear Colleagues, I wanted to share an exciting project we have recently launched to mark the bicentennial of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. We hope our completely free, open-source digital edition of the novel will be useful as a teaching resource as well as a living prototype of large-scale collaborative annotation. Frankenbook is a collective reading experience of the […]
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Thinking Beyond the Canon
The following syllabus is a manifestation of a larger rhetorical and pedagogical investigation into the possibilities of postcanonical and transcanonical literary consumption and the subsequent theoretical dissection of literary artifacts. The lens through which this possibility is explored is self-authorship, which here functions as not only a theme within literature (i.e. semi-autobiographical narratives) but as […]
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Triply-Oppressed Status: Claudia Jones, Brown Girl, Brown Stones, and the Bronx Slave Market
We began our student-led seminar on March 6, 2018, centering the work of black communist feminist Claudia Jones. We first invited the class to ponder if they were to have dinner with Jones, what questions would they ask her? Students asked a series of questions, contemplating her life, organizing, and methodological approaches to communism. During […]
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Dear Fellow Graduate Student
Dear Fellow Graduate Student, As you well know, this is a rough time to be pursuing an advanced degree. We are underfunded, overworked, exploited, and devalued by a society that (to take just one recent example) attempted to tax our tuition waivers as income, which would have made graduate education untenable for most of us […]