Tag: academia
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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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How to write a conference abstract
This year, I am the Graduate Placement Officer (GPO) representative for our graduate student committee, which generally means that I work with our GPO to organize and host professionalization workshops for graduate students. As part of this role, last semester I organized and led a workshop on how to write a conference abstract. Here are…
Kiera Obbard 