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I work in higher education, and a few days ago I saw the Chronicle of Higher Education interactive story “How Many Black Women Have Tenure on Your Campus?” Since I’ve done some data analysis with the Integrated Post-Secondary Education Data Set, I thought I would reprise this idea focusing specifically on Assistant Professors on the …
Our final show just wrapped! This summer, I've been working with the amazingly talented Jon Gann to produce a Capital Fringe 2016 show on the famous "Rabbit Woman of Godalming," who gave birth to a series of rabbits--in parts--over the course of a few months in 1726. It was a song cycle, each song in …
Hankering for a change of some sort--though goodness knows why I think I need even more of that in my life, but that's an existential question best left offline--I decided recently to ditch Windows and commit fully to Ubuntu. I had 11.04 on a computer I didn't really use all that often, sort of an …
The summer is upon us, and I have had the great good fortune of a grant to be able to work with three IT students from Marymount on the Novels in Context project. We are all learning about how to collaborate using GitHub for version control, and I found myself in the exciting position of having to teach …
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CEA 2015, Indianapolis, IN March 28, 2015 Novels in Context: A TEI Database for Teachers, Students, and Scholars In Fall 2012, I was teaching my “survey” of World Literature (1500-1800… I know!), a class that I typically teach once an academic year. I use the Norton Anthology, Volumes C and D, because they have a …
One of the things I have been working on for the past several months has been organizing the 2015 Virginia Humanities Conference, on the theme, "The Humanities and/in the Public Sphere." This April, Marymount University will be hosting the conference on its Main Campus, and I am very happy to note that we have a …
Novels in Context: A TEI Database of Primary Resources for Teachers, Students, and Scholars College English Association 2015 Proposal This Fall, I was awarded a sabbatical grant to pursue work in the digital humanities, specifically the creation of a free- and open-source relational database of curated, excerpted, annotated primary source materials useful for the study and …
It's a real pleasure to get back into writing and researching; administration has its rewards, but I think I'd much rather teach, read, and write about the things that inspire and interest me. Since the sabbatical has technically started, I've been working on my Novels in Context database project, but I've also been working up several proposals …
I'm currently working on an essay about the way that popular drama addresses the material practices of death in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, entitled "Corpse Humor: Funereal Practices in Early 18th Century Popular Performance." A (very drafty) draft is available online for comment and feedback. I anticipate cutting some sections and foregrounding other …
Today was an exciting first day of the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer Seminar--I'm in the TEI stream, led by Sebastian Rahtz. Incidentally, I'm really happy with his teaching style, which is definitely lecture-based but is very conversational and filled with detailed examples in the presentation materials. The day is broken out into a lecture/discussion …
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Tonya Howe 