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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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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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Interrogating Augmented Tech Mediation in Mobile Gaming App Pokémon GO!
Written by Abi Lemak & Kiera Obbard.Original post can be found on Medium. Growing up in the 1990s and 2000s, we were, like many of our friends, caught up in the Pokémon hype. We wanted to “catch ’em all,” as the show’s theme song invited — and when Pokémon GO! was released in Canada in the summer of…
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Getting going with scholarship online: my introduction to Digital Humanities at the DH@Guelph Summer Workshops
In May, I attended a four-day Digital Humanities workshop at the University of Guelph on “Getting Going with Scholarship Online: An Introduction to CWRC”. I attended the workshops as a introduction to what will be a major piece of my doctoral studies when I begin my PhD this September: Digital Humanities. So, what is digital…
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