The HASTAC Scholars program is an innovative student community. We blog, host online forums, develop new projects and organize events. Much of our work centers around rethinking pedagogy, learning, research & academia for the digital age. On this page you will find an expanding list comprising all content produced by the HASTAC Scholars program and participants. Content is ordered by initial posting date, with more recent items first. Load more items at the end of the page to keep reading.
All Content by HASTAC Scholars
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Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2019
During the first week of June I had the opportunity to participate in the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria, BC. As a...
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Fold/Unfold Close Reading Activity
Click here to view the original post with more slide images from June 13, 2019, a modified version of “Unfolding Fanny Fern’s Ruth Hall and Nathaniel...
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NGA Exhibition Spotlights the Work of Woman Artist and Depictions of Plants
The National Gallery of Art's current exhibition The American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical Realists provides an opportunity to view many watercolors,...
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The Price to Pay for being a Survivor: The Need for Trauma-Informed Universities
*Trigger warning/self-care for trauma/sexual violence/possible triggers for many traumatic experiences* A few months ago, I was sitting in a graduate...
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HASTAC 2019
I decided to reflect on HASTAC 2019 experience by focusing on a major theme that emerged for me over the course of the conference: De-programming and...
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Webinar Recap: Making Meaning with Digital Tools-- Practical and Inclusive Strategies
Initially, I conceptualized this webinar as an attempt to articulate a pedagogical move beyond the traditional paper. As an English instructor, I (...
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Digital Humanities (DH) at KU – Being a HASTAC Scholar
Last month, our HASTAC scholars presented our work in the Digital Scholars’ Showcase. Please check the following link for the presentation I gave:...
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Audience Lost: Minority Women and Spectatorship
AUDIENCE LOST: MINORITY WOMEN AND SPECTATORSHIP 22-23 November 2019, Ghent University, Belgium Website: https://audiencelost.wordpress.com/blog/...
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Review of The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media
Social media theorist Nathan Jurgenson describes his new book as “the culmination of [his] thinking about the rise of social photography, written...
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Progressive Pedagogy On the Road
Last week, we took Progressive Pedagogy on the road to two conferences in Vancouver: Digital Democracies at Simon Fraser University (SFU) and HASTAC'...
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From Straw to Bricks: The Benefits of Thinking Locally for Building Digital Projects
Above: 1648 Map of Boston created by Samuel Chester Clough from the Collection at the Massachusetts Historical Society. We must think locally, and...
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Teaching Public Writing in the Graduate Seminar
In Fall 2018, I attended an event at my college organized by my colleague Cori McKenzie on “Innovations in English Language Arts Teaching and...