Have you used Timeline JS to recreate a novel with enriched digital resources? I am testing what this might look like in an epistolary context, using Frances Burney's Evelina. By sharing the google sheet on which the timeline is based, students could be assigned letters or chapters to add--some things I've discovered so far are that you …
Major Women Writers: London, Chawton, Bath
Next week my upper-division writing intensive literature class on women writers before Austen is going to the UK for an extended Spring Break field trip. We'll be spending the first few days in London, with a day trip to Strawberry Hill (I know, I know... I just couldn't help myself!); then we're off to Chawton; …
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@AustenSays twitter bot
I "made" my first bot, with @zachwhalen's google sheets script! @AustenSays — Tonya Howe (@howet) April 7, 2016 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js With the help of Zach Whalen's extraordinarily clear instructions, I set up my first twitter bot, @austensays, which tweets out a single sentence (provided it's 140 or fewer characters) from Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park. I was …
Aphra Behn Society 2015: Wikipedia Workshop
I love going to (to me) new conferences--not only do I get to learn about exciting work in the field, but I also get to meet new people and, ideally, expand my collection of "regularly-attended." What strikes me most about the Aphra Behn Society is its collegiality, its openness to and mentorship of graduate student …
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The Pomp and Farce of Death: PCA 2013 Abstract
“The Pomp and Farce of Death: Funeral Humor on the Popular 18th Century English Stage” This paper examines the presence of funereal humor on the popular British stage during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Throughout the seventeenth and early eighteenth-centuries, English funereal practices once reserved for the nobility began to become available—though not …
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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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Visualizations
Relative frequencies of fear, love, think, feel in five Gothic novels
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 …
Working Assignment: Digital Gomatos Collection
This March at ASECS, I'm presenting my work on the development of a collaborative digital assignment for graduate students (which could also work for advanced undergraduates) organized around the creation of items in an Omeka collection. The idea is to work together to define and populate a subcollection of materials housed in our small special …
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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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