Reviewed by Nick Carbone Presiding Elizabeth M. Schwartz, San Joaquin Delta Coll., CA Panelists Elizabeth Harris McCormick, LaGuardia Community Coll., City Univ. of New York Lykourgos Vasileiou, LaGuardia Community Coll., City Univ. of New York Lanta Davis, Baylor Univ. Matthew Parfitt, Boston Univ. Miles McCrimmon, J. Sargeant Reynolds Community Coll., VA Program arranged by the Discussion Group on the Two-Year College Powered by conviction and enthusiasm, the panelists in “What Is the Next Thing? Postmodern Pedagogies in the Composition Classroom” described classroom assignments that invigorate their teaching and, they said, student learning. Like so many teaching ideas, those shared by…
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Review by Alex Reid Presiding Mark Sample, George Mason University Panelists Douglas M. Armato, University of Minnesota Press Kathleen Fitzpatrick, MLA Frank Kelleter, University of Göttingen Kirstyn Leuner, University of Colorado-Boulder Jason Mittell, Middlebury College Ted Underwood, University of Illinois-Urbana This roundtable collectively addressed practices of social media in scholarly work, broadly defined as “serial scholarship.” Each speaker presented briefly and the session then turned toward conversation. Douglas Armato began by offering a publisher’s perspective, explaining the benefits of working with authors who are established bloggers or otherwise have built online audiences for their work. Counter to the typical perception…
Review by Cheryl E. Ball Presiding J. Stephen Murphy, New York, NY Speakers Ann Ardis, Univ. of Delaware, Newark Sean Latham, Univ. of Tulsa Dallas H. Liddle, Augsburg College James Mussell, Univ. of Birmingham Matthew Philpotts, Univ. of Manchester Position papers: http://myblogs.informa.com/jvc/2012/12/24/what-is-a-journal-mla2013/ Although this session may be considered outside the DH mainstream, I attended it because I am interested in historical understandings and connections to my contemporary digital media publishing work. I wasn’t really sure what to expect, nor did I know what periodical studies was when I entered the room. Not surprisingly (if you know anything about Victorian history…
Review by Korey Jackson Panelists Alison Byerly, Middlebury College Kathleen Fitzpatrick, MLA Katherine A. Rowe, Bryn Mawr College Early on Thursday morning I attended the MLA pre-conference workshop on Evaluating Digital Work for Tenure and Promotion. Kathleen Fitzpatrick opened the session with an introduction to the new networking site MLA Commons—a platform that promises to offer social media warp and weft for humanities scholars looking to combine forces around disciplinary questions and challenges. I’m excited by the prospects of the platform and heartened that there’s already a group of dedicated folk discussin’ and fightin’ the good fight of appointment, promotion,…