While I’ve been micro-blogging away about my comings and goings on @barbarahui, my macro-blog here at barbarahui.net has been eerily quiet. What with the year changing and all of that, I thought I’d take a bit of time to reflect back on the past 6 months or so in a brand spanking new post.
My summer began [...]
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Summer and Winter 2009 in Brief
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Challenges in “Literature”?
In his Beyond the Beyond blog on Wired, science fiction writer and some time media theorist Bruce Sterling recently made a post entitled 18 Challenges in Contemporary Literature. This is certainly provocative title, and my ears immediately perked up at it. But after reading the post, I have to say that I’m pretty befuddled, mainly [...]
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Litmap Presentation Notes
As promised, here are my notes from the lightning talk I gave yesterday at the Digital Humanities Symposium at UCLA. I spoke on my Litmap project, which is a Google Maps mash-up I’ve put together for the purpose of mapping the books that I’m writing on in my dissertation. As you can see, it’s a [...]
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Digital Humanities Symposium
I’ll be giving a 5-10 minute “lightning” presentation on my literary mapping project and how it fits together with my dissertation at the Mellon Seminar Digital Humanities Symposium on Monday, June 1st, at UCLA.
The seminar is free and open to all, and I believe the whole afternoon will also be broadcast in Second Life as [...]
On Theory, Praxis and “Digital Humanities”
A bit of background: this post is a response to @jcmeloni’s recent blog post On Going from Industry to Academia, which was itself a response to a discussion @jcmeloni and @georgeonline had on Twitter, which I belatedly butted in on. As she puts it:
There was some discussion on Twitter approximately a billion years ago (I [...]
Now Twittering on (Digital) Tech and the Humanities
I’m now on Twitter, folks! Follow me there for what will be undoubtedly far more posts than you can find here. My aim for the account is to collect and disperse information pertaining to intersections between (digital) technology and the humanities.
[I'm putting "digital" in parentheses because I don't want to limit myself to digital [...]
Dissertating, and a Very Belated MLA Report
I have clearly not been very good at keeping up my blog here. I’m going to blame the obvious culprit: my dissertation.
The good news is that I finally seem to have figured out a writing routine that is productive for me. This consists of producing 2 pages a day, 7 days a week, religiously. Every [...]
Collaboration
Strangely enough, the buzzword for me around my work these days seems to be collaboration. I say “strange” because I’m currently writing a humanities dissertation, and that’s hardly a group-work kind of affair. And it’s true, the writing itself will always be done in isolation. I don’t think there’s any way to get around it, [...]
