Tag: literary studies
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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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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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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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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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