Standing Together Against Hate

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I was recently asked to give a short statement at an interfaith event in Doylestown, sponsored by Rise Up Doylestown, Showing Up for Racial...

Slides and Links for LVAIC Scalar Workshop (5/24)

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I'll be doing a presentation at Lehigh for an LVAIC workshop later this week. The topic will be an introduction to Scalar. My slides ...

Mimicry and Hybridity in Plain English (Updated and Expanded)

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Update from April 2017: I added a new section called "Close Reading Bhabha's 'Signs Taken For Wonders.'" Also, for fol...

Fateh Singh Makkar, 1924-2017

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I recently delivered a eulogy for my grandfather, who passed away at the age of 92. This is a slightly edited version, with most names rem...

Forgetting the Famines: the Kiplings and British India

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Slide show for a talk at Michigan State University's Global DH Symposium  (click read more to see the slide show).  The text of part ...

Historical Footnote: Militant Suffragettes, Forced Feeding, and Class Identity

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A brief historical footnote completely unrelated to President Agent Orange. I've been working with an honors student on her senior th...

Teaching Notes: Multimodal Assignment (Spring 2016)

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I taught two sections of first-year writing in spring 2016 under the overarching theme of "immigration." I assigned some fiction ...

Spring 2017 Teaching. "Writing Empire: Race, Gender, and Power in British India"

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I'm teaching a graduate course in spring 2017 called "Writing Empire: Race, Gender, and Power in British India."  In addi...

Teaching Notes: "Religion and Literature" (Fall 2016)

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This fall I taught a course for advanced undergraduates on "Religion and Literature." In it, I assigned Milton's Paradise Lo...

Digital Humanities Exhibits at #MSA18: An Annotated Overview

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I'm at the MSA this year to talk about my Claude McKay project as part of a Digital Exhibition. The format is unusual: in one of the ...

Claude McKay: New Site, Expanded Project (w/Network Diagrams)

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Harlem Shadows: Claude McKay's Early Poetry http://scalar.lehigh.edu/mckay/ I've recently been working on rebuilding a collabo...

"I'm Happy to Own All Of It": Teju Cole's "Known and Strange Things"

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I have been reading and reveling in Teju Cole's new collection of essays,  Known and Strange Things , over the past week. Many of the ...

Summer Teaching: "Beyond Bollywood -- Indian Cinema in an Era of Globalization"

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This summer I'm teaching an online course called "Beyond Bollywood." It's meant as a gentle introduction to a small slice...

Group Project: Sentiment Analysis of Poetry in Python (DHSI 2016)

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I took a one-week course on Coding Fundamentals at DHSI 2016 with Dennis Tenen (Columbia University) and John Simpson (University of Albert...

#MyDHis... (Text of my Presentation at DHSI)

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(I'm doing a 5-7 minutes presentation at DHSI in Victoria this afternoon. This is the text of what I'll be presenting.) Admitt...