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Interactive timelines can be a handy reference for students (or faculty! or researchers!) in almost any course.  Their relevance for the humanities and social sciences almost goes without saying, but one could easily imagine an interesting timeline about human development, … Continue reading →

As I’ve mentioned before, this semester I’m teaching a shiny new class in, more or less, humanities computing–“digital literary studies.”  Back when the course was scheduled, I asked to teach in a smart room–not just a room with a multimedia … Continue reading →

The former Romanticism on the Net (RoN) has expanded its scope, and is now RaVoN (Romanticism & Victorianism on the Net). The inaugural re-branded issue, guest edited by Jerome McGann, is now online here: http://www.ravon.umontreal.ca/ And a graduate student at … Continue reading →

I know that, per internet law, it’s bad form to link to something after it has shown up on boingboing, since virtually everyone online will have seen it.  But . . . It is a source of deep, abiding shame … Continue reading →

First, a process thing: I’m using the combination of Twitter + Hahlo + my iPhone this semester to encourage me to reflect a little on each class.  It’s a good habit to think about your teaching regularly, and this combination … Continue reading →

In Paul Clifford, the eponymous hero’s tutor, Mr. Peter Mac Grawler, reflects: “Why fret myself? –if a pupil turn out well, it is clearly to the advantage of his master; if not, to the disadvantage of himself.”  Of course, a … Continue reading →

Ask, and ye shall receive–How PBwiki & I do class notes: I was motivated to try this assignment by two factors: Many students take almost no notes in English classes, especially upper-division English classes, and especially when class discussions turn … Continue reading →

(This is the first in a series of reflections on last year, when I required only born-digital assignments.  This year, I’ve shifted back to a mix of these assignments and conventional papers.) In nearly all of my classes last year, … Continue reading →

At chez Salt-Box, I am the one who reads “chapter books” to the Little Man, as opposed to books he can read by himself, or longer picture books or comic books, which anyone is allowed to read to him.  As … Continue reading →

Hartford Stage will be staging Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye in about a month. I’m sure it’ll be interesting; A in particular is excited because she’s teaching the book in an honors class this semester. What I liked was this … Continue reading →