About a week ago I converted my chapter document into a word doc. Until now, I've only been engaging with the draft on through the text editor Emacs using Org Mode, an amazing format that allows you to collapse paragraphs and outlines to make writing cleaner and more navigable. As …
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In my last post, I started to organize my thoughts on feminist distant reading. My focus was to work out how we might open up the way we interface with queerness as "untouchable," as the raw data that cannot be quantified. The solution is to abstract and formalize so we …
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It's been difficult to stay focused during the pandemic. Only the past week have I been able to return to my dissertation work, and just to go over my reading notes taken in the weeks prior to march 16, when I left New York. I was working through a mountain …
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Over the past two weeks, I continue to interweave discussions on queer theory and dh methods, focusing on what they share---the sensitivity to textual objects, mediated by the critic's self-consciousness of her distance from the object.
It has been difficult to keep a structure, and I continue to revise my …
read moreApplication Week
This week I've been writing fellowship & grant applications and paper proposals. I've applied to two places (the DSRG and the Clark) to get money to go to LA and see the Wilde typescript. Besides these applications, I also submitted an abstract to a special edition of Digital Humanities Quarterly on …
read moreReflections from GC-DRI
The past few days we have been running our annual Digital Research Institute at the Graduate Center Digital Initiatives. I've taught three sessions of python, and supported sessions on Text Analysis, as well as helping out in Command Line, Git/Github, and attended Mapping.
What I've found, or realized once …
read moreM asks me some questions
Submitted my prospectus to the English office today. It's been a long process---three months, three drafts, two reviews in Dissertation Workshop.
I changed the introduction, going more directly into Queer DH. I also narrowed down the focus of the main paragraphs after the intro: reading method, Life Writing, Cyborgs, and …
read moreCertificate Accomplished
Yesterday I submitted my final paper for the ITP (Interactive Technology and Pedagogy) certificate program. I started working on this project in the spring of 2018, when I theorized the purpose of building and using a (digital) multi-color highlighter to teach close-reading.
Since then, I've built the highlighter (see my …
read moreWhy Is This Useful?
Last week I had a dissertation workshop where I presented a rough draft of my chapter on Social Annotation. I was feeling pretty vulnerable about it. Not only is the draft in its infancy, but it also combines a few disciplines that aren't typical for projects in English studies.
To …
read moreDrafting the Intro
My past two posts have been clarifying the concept of "untouchable" and how it functions in relation to queerness. "Untouchable" denotes a state of suspended knowledge (about queer subjectivity and experience) that allows me to then turn to feeling and affect as epistemological methods. - First, I worked out a definition …
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