My first meeting of Literary Theory and Practice is today at 12:30, and I'm super excited about it! I've taught the class once before, using the same basic materials, and this term I'm fleshing it out a bit more with some excerpts from primary theoretical sources. FSG also recently republished the collected poems of Elizabeth …
Visualizations
Regular Expressions, Word, and the Writing Class
Some years ago, when I was moonlighting as a reviewer for EEBO, I learned how to use regular expressions to do more global find/replace searches in xml files--some years after that, it finally occurred to me that I might be able to use this in the writing classroom. Though I'm not sure my students would …
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Teaching Carnival 5.05 (in progress!)
At the end of November, the UC Davis pepper spray fiasco dramatized the intersection of politics, student life, and academia, and several bloggers considered the place of the OWS movement in the classroom. Jay Dolmage thinks--and writes--about how OWS “has been shaped through unique genres of writing and visual rhetoric,” focusing on sousveillance and the …
Student video projects
I was so impressed with my students' final projects in Visual and Cultural Studies! Overall, they made a very strong showing in their five-minute critical analysis videos. The assignment was fairly open in terms of content, as we were spending several evenings conducting hands-on work in the multimedia lab, but in general, I'd asked them …
Highsmith student/faculty film event
Recent years have seen a dramatic upswing in the popularity of Patricia Highsmith’s work. In this century, two biographies have been written about the prolific pulp novelist, and an array of laudatory articles have appeared in forums like Slate, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Times of …
New projects, things left undone (for now)
So, every morning when I get up, I see the copy of the book I'm currently reviewing, and I berate myself for not finishing the thing! I've gotten about 1/4 of the way through, and I've looked over sample reviews from Restoration, but I'm struggling with completion. The book is a collection of essays of …
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Oxford conversion of ECCO
Oxford conversion of ECCO texts, freely available as ePUBs! Joy! There's no real finding guide, and you won't get the facsimile pages, but it's a happy day for those of us without institutional access to Eighteenth-Century Collections Online. Use CTRL-F to find authors, titles; download the Firefox ePUB addon for easy viewing.
Innovations in Teaching and Scholarship (2011)
This year's Innovations conference is nigh upon us, and I'll be presenting in the 10:30 1:00-2:30 workshop slot before after lunch to my faculty colleagues. The topic? Google Takes Over, But WordPress is Waiting: Sites, Blogs, and Calendars. Please swing by if you have questions, want to play around with Google Sites and WordPress, or learn …
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Student-Curated Web Archives and the Public Humanities
Just got my ASECS proposal in for the next conference! I feel as though I just returned from San Antonio.... Here it is: In “Making Connections: The Humanities, Culture and Community,” part of the findings of the ACLS’s National Task Force on Scholarship and the Public Humanities, James Quay and James Veninga explore the relationship …
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Tonya Howe 