I was reading Gary Olson’s post in The Chronicle, “How Not to Reform Humanities Scholarship,” (http://chronicle.com/article/How-Not-to-Reform-Humanities/130675/) and it reminded me of the wonderful opening scene in Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968). Barbra’s brother is teasing her with, “They’re coming to get you, Barbra, they’re coming to get you.” In Olson’s palaver, and ones
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What defines the big tent digital humanities is I think a key question that we really do need to answer. The other day a taxonomy for the digital humanities. Starting out, I thought it would be an easy and fun adventure, but after many tries at the white board creating nodal maps, I quickly found
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Today we are having our farewell lunch for Matt Geimer as he prepare to leave us for MicroSoft.
MATRIX: The Center for the Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences is seeking an experienced, creative, and talented individual to fill the position of Assistant Director. The Assistant Director will be primarily responsible for directly overseeing MATRIX’s project infrastructure. This includes managing MATRIX’s development team (programmers, web designers, graduate assistants, and interns) as well as
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I will be off to the Modern Langauge Association annual convention, January 5-8. This year it is in Seattle and I am looking forward to a wide variety of presentations on the Digital Humanities. We will also be hosting a reception for those CIC folks interested in the Digital humanities and attending MLA. As noted
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