Chair of Film & Media Studies @dartmouth, does data & digital humanities things, edits #ReviewsInDH, rides horses 🐴
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Nov 7 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Colleges & universities adopting institutional neutrality policies are acceding to & complicit with right-wing assaults on institutions and are ensuring that higher ed will never have a chance at having moral authority as we edge closer to our autocratic dystopian near future. 🧵
As someone writing (in a roundabout way) on the history of higher ed, I have no illusions that higher ed ever had moral authority - founded explicitly & implicitly via settler-colonialism & chattel slavery - but it’s a good aspiration to address and repair past and ongoing harms.
Dec 3, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Boring opinion: we already see a lot of this in writing generated by students -- info-dumping paraphrased from other sources that *looks* like it's answering the question because of vast amounts of info and details, but isn't actually answering the question.
I realized this the first time I taught a gen ed world lit class with widely taught texts -- there was just SO much out there to be paraphrased and info-dumped. And because I had set things up as here's the question, give me an answer, I got responses like this.
Oct 31, 2022 • 12 tweets • 9 min read
The October issue of Reviews in Digital Humanities is live. Catch Part II of "Race, Health & Medicine," guest edited by @BlackDigitalHum & @KirstenOstherr#ReviewsinDHreviewsindh.pubpub.org/v3-n10
.@jenguiliano & I are also pleased to announce our editorial board reorg. Miranda Hughes, formerly our editorial assistant, has been promoted to Associate Editor, in charge of production. #ReviewsInDH
Oct 29, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I have heard tell of an apocryphal tale: that my sister will not wait in line to get into a luxury store but goes up to the door and says, “I don’t wait in queues.” Reader: I got to see this happen — and work — at Gucci 🤣
We are all vaguely confused about how we both came from the same parents, thus more fodder for the Welsh nationalist milkman theory of my parentage. 🏴
Aug 17, 2022 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
The MLA guidelines are out! Two years of work with brilliant collaborators, reading and thinking and debating. A few observations below. mla.org/Guidelines-Pub…
Guidelines are fine and well but if no one does anything with them, then we wasted two years of our lives. In part, #ReviewsInDH exists because so many wonderful orgs put out digital humanities evaluation guidelines and *crickets.* Let’s not do that again.
Aug 1, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
How horrifying that Inside Higher Ed is platforming an anonymous essay that appropriates redlining for a strawperson argument about the oppression of white faculty. (That begins, no less, with the academic equivalent of "my best friend is Black.") insidehighered.com/views/2022/08/…
Here's the thing: no one is out here challenging the commitment of colleagues with careers dedicated to areas of scholarship that don't align with their identities. The key words here are "careers dedicated to."
When you are a faculty member of color, your identity means so much to your students. I had a student I’ve mentored for 3 years tell me today how exciting it was for her to see an energetic brown woman in a sea of white at one of her first events in our department.
Jul 18, 2019 • 39 tweets • 19 min read
Thank you, @annetiquate & @caitduffy49 for the opportunity to speak today and to all of you who are participating. I'll be talking about the role of Twitter and social media in humanities knowledge production and how they've influenced my work. #HCTwitterConf19
I often say I owe my entire career to Twitter. And that's true - though I'm super conscious of my reliance on a third-party platform with a dubious track record on social justice. #HCTwitterConf19
