While I do not usually post drafts of my scholarly papers unlocked online because of "previous publication" issues that journals have as policies (if draft is substantially the same, they don't publish if it's been on the internet in most cases I know about), this draft is such an early version of a pilot project that will be massively revised as I ( Read more... )

Copy of presentation on the first postNOTE: I'm doing the analysis of the first post by hand; this project may eventually (grant agencies willing) become part of a larger project in digital humanities. I'm working with a computer scientist and two linguists to develop a conceptual search engine and other programs that can be used to parse and tag ( Read more... )

Working draft

Copy of presentation on the first postNOTE: I'm doing the analysis of the first post by hand; this project may eventually (grant agencies willing) become part of a larger project in digital humanities. I'm working with a computer scientist and two linguists to develop a conceptual search engine and other programs that can be used to ( Read more... )

There has been major growth in fan studies (and even more in internet studies--a much larger field of study) in the last few years. It's been a while since I did searches, so I've been doing some, and here are the results ( Read more... )

Working on a pilot study on fail_fandomanon for a conference next month ( Read more... )

The Digital Humanities Grant is due next week--my Co-PI and I have been working on it despite the glacial age that hit for a couple of weeks. Part of the process at this university requires an IRB review (in the case of this project, we'll be working on the scholarship even if the grant isn't funded which is likely--it's the first time we've ( Read more... )

Besides working on a grant myself (actually two at the moment, both due in the next week or so), I'm also teaching a technical writing (undergraduate course) devoted entirely to grant writing: I expect in the next year or so to develop a graduate course on grant writing in the humanities (which will be offered online ( Read more... )

Especially to do with the film (or stylistic analysis of Tolkien's writing)

WE have official notice that the anthology below is due out from McFarland in summer 2011 (probably July, maybe earlier).

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I'm familiar with Wendy Chun's work (have taught it twice), but have had Nakamura on my "must read" list for a while. So today I went over and snaffled one of her books from my library: I'll need to buy them for scribbling in, but for now, I'm taking notes on my computer ( Read more... )

Because of #MooreandMe, the anti-rape apologist protest that has begun the last few days ( Read more... )