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...

Digital Humanities Blogging: Retrospective on a Pretty Productive Year

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I'm in Victoria this week for the DHSI. On Monday 6/5 I'll be presenting at a plenary session at the conference; I'll probably ...

In Defense of Digital Tools (by a Non-Tool)

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Like many of my friends and colleagues, I found the recent broad critique of the Digital Humanities  in LARB by Daniel Allington, David Gol...

Spring Teaching: Immigrants and Refugees

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(I wrote this up for an informal talk at Christ Church Neighborhood House in Philadelphia. I ended up not using much of the actual text of ...

Gender and the State: A Beginner's Guide to the Personal Law Debate in India

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Next week, Lehigh hosts an exciting conference called "Feminisms Beyond the Secular," with a number of prominent feminist academ...