Tag: university of guelph
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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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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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Three things I’ve learned from the first semester in my part-time PhD
I’ve now completed one semester of somewhere between 15-20 semesters to come of my part-time PhD. With one semester under my academic belt, I’d like to reflect on how my first semester went and what I learned — both inside and out of the classroom.
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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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