Below I’ve copied the (very rough) text of my talk at MLA 2012, as part of the Society for Textual Scholarship‘s “Text:Image – Visual Studies in the English Major” panel. You can download the accompanying slides here. “Mapping the Antebellum …
Things are moving for “The Celestial Railroad” project. After the slow work of last year—which can be forgiven, I hope, as I was a brand-new faculty member—this year I have two undergraduate assistants helping me transcribe and encode the hundreds …
Inside Higher Education ran a story today about academics using Twitter at the 2009 MLA (Modern Language Association) Convention. I was one of those academics, and was interviewed for the story. I have some reservations about the way the story …