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Litmap Presentation Notes

By barbara | Published: June 2, 2009

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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Dissertating, and a Very Belated MLA Report

By barbara | Published: February 27, 2009

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 [...]

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Collaboration

By barbara | Published: October 23, 2008

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, [...]

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