Archive for the ‘dayofDH’ Category
As a digital humanist, I wear many hats… (along with glasses and backpacks and papers and prosthetics and surfboards and friends and hospital gowns and nametags and progeny and flowers in my hair…)
This is a ‘classic’ post that seemed worth revisiting for the “Day of DH,” while I’m contemplating my own identity as a cyborg and the price I pay for that luxury. Sometimes I make jokes about being a “bionic woman” or a “cyborg.” Having a prosthetic leg with a computer-controlled knee joint lends itself to [...]
In a career trajectory that’s probably peculiar to my skillset as a Digital Humanist, I moved directly from being a graduate student to serving as a university administrator (I’m the Associate Director for the Office of Academic Technology & Digital Media at a private university in southern California). That transition resulted in a pretty steep [...]
Tomorrow I’ll be particpating in the “Day of DH,” an annual event sponsored by CenterNet where Digital Humanists write/blog/tweet about what they do. Thus, I’ll be tweeting my daily schedule as well as publishing some posts here about my life straddling the digital and the academic, as well as balancing that with various other demands [...]
This morning I received a message from my university’s career center informing me that they now subscribe to a pay-for service called “The Versatile PhD” which has: * Examples of successful resumes and cover letters that real PhDs and ABDs used to get their first post-academic positions * A collection of first-person narratives written by [...]
Today I’m participating in a social experiment called the “Day of DH.” You’ll be seeing numerous tweets from my stream with that tag that’ll be cross-posted to Facebook. I’ll also be doing some light liveblogging about my experiences with the Digital Humanities throughout the day. Stay tuned, it’s gonna be a fun ride! :)
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