Excellent venue for computational humanities work, colocated with ACL in San Diego on July 6. Please share!
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Excellent venue for computational humanities work, colocated with ACL in San Diego on July 6. Please share!
Looks great! Here's what I'm currently teaching: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Talked about this with my class yesterday in response to Paul Ford's recent in the NYT (www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...). He says that most software isn't "good." We bounced from there to talk about what "good" writing is and when they choose to produce and when they don't.
Sure. But since I have ample evidence that studnets do not submit in the format I require of them, I've decided to start suggesting that there is a way to learn to do this correctly.
Just discovered that Steve Reich's *Music for 18 Musicians* will be performed on my campus in three weeks. This is me for the next 21 days.
media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2l...
I mean, that's how imma gonna read it.
So that "AI for the Humanities" course I'm teaching? Here's the vibe-coding assignment that I gave to my students earlier today:
docs.google.com/document/d/1....
As always, my assignments are CC-BY.
I wrote a thing about the "AI for the Humanities" class that I'm currently teaching: humanitiescenter.byu.edu/the-work-of-....
Call for Proposals: What does an edited volume look like in a post-print world? What does an edited volume “get” you (in a professional sense)? Do we even still need edited volumes?
Please send your proposal to brian.croxall@byu.edu and dkj004@bucknell.edu no later than Sunday, 15 March 2026. #mla27
If you're interested in participating, we invite editors *of* and contributors *to* edited collections to send us two tips (150 words + brief vita) for making the most of it and surviving the experience with your sanity intact.
For the 2027 MLA Convention, @jakacki.bsky.social and I are proposing a special session, "Edited Collections: Tips and Tricks to Successful Publishing." This will be a roundtable, with contributors *to*, editors *of*, and publishers *of* edited volumes. Plus admin.
@modernlanguage.bsky.social
But here's the first six weeks.
It's literally being updated every day, as I'm only a step or two ahead of my students most of the time. Once the semester has wrapped, I'll add it to the syllabus so there's a record of what was done.
It's been a while since I was this far out on an edge pedagogically, and while it's nerve-wracking and taking ALL THE TIME, it's also exactly what I need to be doing right now. Grateful for the chance to stretch.
I've managed to schedule a number of colleagues from Computer Science, our Law School, the Rutgers Business School, and the inimitable @miaout.bsky.social to join my students for conversations about the ins and outs of genAI.
And here's the latest assignment, "fAIry Tales," in which I'm riffing on a very cool thing I saw @lmrhody.bsky.social working on in October of last year. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I've been busy this semester, working on my new course called "AI for the Humanities": docs.google.com/document/d/1.... It's taught across four different departments in our College of Humanities.
Definitely haven’t done one so far. It’s a topic I remain deeply and personally invested in…
But what meant the most was when I was severely underemployed in 2009, @brettbobley.bsky.social took the time to talk with me about the process of applying to jobs at the NEH. We had never met apart from Twitter and he chatted on the phone. That meant so much to a broke PhD. #ThanksBrett
A huge thanks to @brettbobley.bsky.social who is retiring from NEH ODH. A consummate public servant who is always a joy to see arriving at DH events in his chopper. I owe you a Diet Coke every day from here on out. #ThanksBrett
I consider this one of the most important donations I can make. To be clear, the Paving the Way fund supports the legal expenses.
I donated to the Paving the Way initiative to help with this critical lawsuit on behalf of the NEH. Think about joining me?
If your grant was terminated & you are an MLA member (or in a related discipline), please fill out our My NEH Grant Story form. Your story can help inform the actions we are taking to protect the NEH. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
This is why I became a lifetime @modernlanguage.bsky.social member last year.
Maybe small orgs and large orgs could work together rather than taking aim at one another. The impulse to compete always undermines solidarity. Reach out rather than tearing down.
If you don't know what your org is doing right now to fight for you, maybe ask them rather than assuming they're not doing anything. Mine has been actively meeting with folks on the Hill and strategizing with other orgs and institutions about paths forward, even as they're facing funding cuts.
Y'all. I get that a small scholarly org can be nimble and take on a lot of quick, grassroots work. It's super important and exciting. But that should not encourage you to insult the hardworking professionals who are keeping large scholarly orgs moving in astonishingly difficult circumstances.
I’m 47, which is exactly right.
Read more about his work in Digital Humanities Quarterly: www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/11/1...