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First inaugural DLC+ Conference: Smut and Lore
November has been a busy month for me! One of the highlights of this busy time of year has been running and participating in the inaugural DLC+ mini conference. Digital Literary Cultures, or DLC+, is an open-access research network and resource for scholars of digital literary culture broadly defined. I’ve been a member for a…
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How to keep track of your academic publishing pipeline
“Publish or perish,” the haunting academic refrain goes. But when you’re in the midst of endless dissertation or manuscript revisions, teaching courses, and applying to jobs, it can be difficult to keep track of everything you’re working on. Enter Trello. Trello is a visual tool for organizing projects. In Trello, you create a ‘board’ for…
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First runner-up in Poetry film, North America
On August 30th, 2025, my poetry film “family video” was screened at the 3rd annual Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) film fest screenings over a nut-free vegan potluck at Wishbone Animal Rights Lab in Toronto, Ontario. I’m pleased to share that my poetry film was 1st runner-up winner in the category of Poetry Films in…
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Making: A Feminist Praxis at DH@Guelph 2025
What happens when feminist theory meets hands-on creativity? When cross-stitching becomes a form of resistance? When poetry film and zine-making turn into tools for dissent? Last week, I co-led a four-day workshop on feminist making at the DH@Guelph Summer Workshops. Inspired by Sara Ahmed’s call for a feminist survival kit in Living a Feminist Life,…
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Visualizing Data with Everyday Objects: Love Data Week
As part of Love Data Week 2025 from February 10-14, I hosted a hands-on workshop in the THINC Lab titled “Visualizing Data with Everyday Objects”. Love Data Week celebrates data in all its forms, and raises awareness about the importance of data science and the management, preservation and ability to access data. This year’s theme…
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Poetry film screening: “family video”
On Saturday, January 4, 2025, I joined a live poetry film screening and panel hosted by Samita Nandy of the Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) and the CMCS Wall of Fame Film Festival. A work-in-progress version of my poetry film “family video”, featuring my poem of the same name that was originally published…
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DH@Guelph Summer Workshops 2024
From May 14th-17th, 2024, I attended the DH@Guelph Summer Workshops 2024. This year, I took the “Introduction to Python” course. Here’s some of what we learned. Dr. Paul Barrett was our instructor. The first day, he taught us how to use Jupyter Notebooks (which I’d used once before), and gave us a basic introduction to…
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Congress 2023: ACCUTE and CSDH Presentations
From May 27-31, 2023, I had the pleasure of attending Congress 2023 at York University, where I presented at the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) and the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (CSDH). My ACCUTE presentation was part of a panel on Social Media Lit. I presented my dissertation research…
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DH@Guelph Summer Workshops 2023 – Introduction to Voyant
The DH@Guelph Summer Workshops returned in-person from May 9-12th, 2023. This year, I was invited to lead a workshop on Introduction to Voyant Tools. Voyant Tools is a web-based text reading and analysis environment that allows you to work with your own text or collection of texts. During the workshop, I led participants through an…
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Tips for Passing your Ph.D. Qualifying Exams
In January 2022, I passed my Ph.D. qualifying exam and officially became a Ph.D. Candidate. For those who aren’t familiar with the Ph.D. process, this means that I am ABD, which stands for “All but dissertation.” This means that all that’s left in my program is for me to write and defend my dissertation. A…
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Kiera Obbard 