Author: Adrienne Raw

As their time with the DRC draws to a close, the 2018-2019 DRC Fellows offer reflections on their experiences, what they’ve learned, and where they go from here. Jason Tham I am thankful for the opportunity to serve as a returning DRC Fellow this year. In my first year, I learned how to engage different scholars and field leaders in sharing their projects with the greater community of digital rhetoric. This year, I got to experience another dimension of serving this field by encouraging junior scholars––graduate students and new faculty––to promote their emerging research and cutting-edge ideas through various events…

Digital Rhetoric Collaborative (DRC) Graduate Fellows are graduate students currently working in some area of digital rhetoric who want practical experience in online publishing with a major university press and a website that serves the community of computers and writing. Fellows will be selected by the editors and board of the DRC and will receive an annual stipend of $500 as well as recognition on the DRC website.  Applications will be accepted until July 10, and the term of Fellowship is for one year with the possibility of renewal for one additional year. In collaboration with DRC colleagues, Fellows will be responsible for…

Themed around Textual Transaction, the 2019 MLA conference was held in Chicago, IL from January 3-6. Presentations, workshops, and talks took up the conference theme as it intersected with everything from literature, to pedagogy, to scholarly identity, and we are pleased to present reviews of some of these sessions. As with past years, the DRC invited MLA attendees to review sessions centered around digital rhetoric, digital pedagogy, and digital humanities, and received the following thoughtful engagements with MLA sessions: MLA Session 089: What We Teach When We Teach Digital Humanities: Curriculum and Experience Review by Kristin vanEyk MLA Session 200:…

Presiding: Katina Rogers, Graduate Center, CUNY, @katinelynn Speakers: Jacinta Yanders, The Ohio State University, @learnteachwin; Christina Katopodis, Graduate Center, CUNY, @nemersonian If you’re here, you have a presence online. So began Katina Rogers’ opening remarks in the workshop she, Christina Katopodis, and Jacinta Yanders hosted on digital scholarly identity. As they argue, it is impossible today not to have a presence online: your name might appear in the program of your national association conference, you might be tagged in an old photo or youthful digital escapade, or your students might have created a profile for you on RateMyProfessor.com. As modern day…