Tag: humanities
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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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Presentation: Close Reading the Sonic Topology of Instagram Poetry with Poemage
On May 16-17th, 2022, I attended the SpokenWeb Symposium 2022 at Concordia University in Montreal on the theme of “The Sound of Literature in Time.” My presentation was titled “Close Reading the Sonic Topology of Instagram Poetry with Poemage”. In the presentation, I show how Poemage, an open-source visualization tool for exploring the sonic topology…
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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…
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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…
Kiera Obbard 