I've been teaching a MA-level critical theory course for a couple of years now, and while I think it's effective on some levels as-is, I would like to offer a more curated, in-depth approach. Currently, the course is organized loosely chronologically, using the 2nd edition of the Rivkin & Ryan anthology--what I used in graduate …
Command Line Case Study: Getting There, Getting Around (and some more often-unspoken basics)
If you've ever wanted to get behind the graphical user interface (the GUI, pronounced "gooey") of your computer and see a little more of what's going on, you should explore the command line. What is the command line? If you're like me, your first exposure was probably the black terminal screen and garish green pixelated text …
Publicity and the Public Sphere (Digital Humanities Caucus)
The ASECS Digital Humanities Caucus is seeking panelists for a 2013 conference session on digital humanities, publicity, and the public sphere. "[D]igital humanities is . . . a social undertaking. It harbors networks of people who have been working together, sharing research, arguing, competing, and collaborating for many years." –Matthew Kirschenbaum, "What Is Digital humanities …
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Introducing a Command Line Case Study: CP
I've been hanging out with Unix people for most of my life, and their interest in it has rubbed off--not, sadly, their expertise, but I've learned a bit here and there. I know enough to follow along in the conversation, mostly; enough to see the value in the simplicity and straightforwardness of the command line; …
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Linux command a day?
Having had this netbook running ubuntu natty for a while, and having experienced the pains of not knowing how to do x, y, or z without fumbling about blindly in a maze alternating command line with google searches for "how to..." or "linux command reference kill," I am contemplating starting a command-a-day series. My goal …
Visualizations
Relative frequencies of fear, love, think, feel in five Gothic novels
Forking for Beginners
I've been trying to wrap my head around github, and while it's been a slow process, I think my experience may be useful for other folk like me--those of us who have just enough knowledge (and the curiosity, and the really big eyes) to make a mess of things. So, I thought I'd make a …
ASECS 2012 Proposal: Student-Curated Web Archives and the Practice of Public Scholarship
This is the proposal for my 2012 ASECS talk; I'll post the full (and very different) piece soon! The process of creating sound public knowledge shares a great deal with the knowledge-making procedures in the arts and humanities. These procedures include interpretation, judgment, imagination, and expression…. In this respect, then, the humanities scholars are natural …
From Tunis to Kairouan: March 3, 2012
Teaching in Tunisia
From March 3rd through the 9th, I was lucky enough to have been invited to give a series of lectures on modern American drama at the Institut Supérieur des Langues de Gabès in Tunisia. The experience was definitely a novel one for me, as I had never had the opportunity to travel outside of western …
Tonya Howe 