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3.5 minutes of distilled fannish joy
I just came back from VividCon, the fan vidding convention. (If you want to know what vidding is, click the tab above.) Vidders submit their vids to Vividcon months in advance and gather together to...
View ArticleTwitterpated teaching
The Labor Day holiday is a welcome relief after my hectic first week in the new job. Among other tasks, I’ve used it to update this website, creating a structure of sub-pages to make things more...
View ArticleAcademic twitter: ethics and conversational nuance
I’m a little embarrassed by the extent to which this blog has consisted of meta-discussions about Twitter, lately. It’s been proving easiest for me to engage in discourse at 140 characters. But today...
View Article#ASA2012 panel transcript: What can digital humanities bring to American...
I’m at the American Studies Association Annual Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It’s an amazing experience, as ASA always is. I’ve become very committed to documenting the conferences I attend when...
View Article#ASA2012 panel notes: New Materialisms, Futurity, Speculative Realisms plenary
I’m continuing to post my notes from ASA panels, now that I’ve returned from the conference and have had a chance to fix the most egregious of the typoes. I’m conscious of the various conflicting...
View Article#ASA2012 panel notes: Speculative Visions of Alternate Worlds and Near...
I’ve used Storify to share the combination of tweets and notes in which I archived this #ASA2012 panel––one of the most exciting and relevant to my work that I attended. Moderator: Janani Subramanian...
View Article#ASA2012 panel notes: Difference Incorporated
Another set of notes/transcripts from a wi-fi-less panel at American Studies. As before, these notes are my interpretation of the participants’ words and may be misguided. Contact them or read their...
View Article#asa2012 panel notes: Technologies of Empire and Resistance
This is the last of the panels in which I typed frantic and exhaustive notes. As always, these are my interpretations and may be wrong––contact the panelists or look up their work for confirmation. My...
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#transformDH at #ASA2012. Marginal Digital Knowledges: A Workshop on...
The last panel I attended at ASA was the one that I participated in: Marginal Digital Knowledges: A Workshop on Technology, Transformation, and Resistance Chair: Tara McPherson (USC) wasn’t able to...
View ArticleGearing up for MLA
As the year draws to a close and I celebrate the successful (I hope; still haven’t seen my student evals) completion of my first semester as an assistant professor, I’m getting ready for the Modern...
View Article#MLA13: The Dark Side of Digital Humanities
This panel inspired some intensely heated discussions on Twitter. Knowing that the talks from these great speakers were likely to be complex and dense, I decided to make notes offline rather than try...
View ArticleAda: A Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology. Feminist science fiction...
I’m incredibly excited to announce a new project. I’ve been invited to guest-edit a special issue of the open access online journal Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology, on feminist...
View Articlean interesting video: sound and vision
I haven’t posted here in a while; most of my blog-related energy has been going into my teaching. And this is not necessarily a queerly geeky post of the kind I usually make; just a brief excerpt from...
View Articlecan digital humanities mean transformative critique?
While I was at the Eaton/SFRA conference on science fiction media this past weekend (of which more soon), the new Journal of e-Media Studies, a special issue on Computational Cultures After the Cloud...
View ArticleEaton/SFRA 2013: my talk on critical fandom
I had a wonderful and inspiring time at the Eaton/Science Fiction Research Association conference in Riverside last weekend. I want to start by posting my own paper, though, which I gave at a morning...
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HASTAC 2013: Building Academic Community (a virtual contribution)
The fifth HASTAC conference, HASTAC 2013: The Storm of Progress, is taking place in Toronto this weekend. I can’t be there, but Fiona Barnett, the amazing and wonderful director of the HASTAC Scholars...
View Articlewhere I’ve been recently
I’m taking a brief pause to breathe after my first year as a tenure-track assistant professor. Going directly from defending my dissertation to being a graduate faculty member in a large and...
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Futurities in love…
I spend a lot of time talking about gay marriage. Thinking, writing, teaching about the history and critiques of the idea that marriage is a political issue, a civil right to be fought for; reading and...
View Articlethe first of a few upcoming publication announcements
Since this semester began, I’ve been in one of those phases where as soon as one piece of work finishes, you dash madly on to the next deadline without raising your head. I’ve created several...
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feminist science fiction
I’ve just come back from the 40th Anniversary Celebration of the University of Oregon’s Center for the Study of Women in Society, where I was invited to participate in the Sally Miller Gearhart “Worlds...
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