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My name is Miriam Posner, and I coordinate and teach in the Digital Humanities program at the University of California, Los Angeles. You can read more about me here.Archives
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Tag Archives: Education
Training grad students for a new scholarly landscape
Here’s what I just said about graduate student training at a workshop (with Daniel Chamberlain, Mary Francis, Tara McPherson, Leslie Mitchner, and Patrice Petro) on “the changing profession” at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual meeting: As we … Continue reading
Some basic things you should know about being in a Ph.D. program
Disclaimer: This post is not about the politics of humanities Ph.D. programs, the ethics of these arrangements, or whether you should go to grad school in the first place. But if you haven’t already looked into this and you’re thinking … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Life
Tagged academic etiquette, Academic Life, Education, Grad, grad school, graduate school, Ph.D. programs, yale
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Making room in the academy for everyone: Margaret Price on kairotic space
Last week, I went to see the rhetorician and disability studies scholar Margaret Price lead a discussion about her new book, Mad at School: Rhetorics of Disability and Academic Life. I was curious for a lot of reasons. Mostly, I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Life, Digital Humanities
Tagged Accessibility, Disability, Education, Margaret Price, Social Issues
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Anatomy on film: the imaginary archive
A lot of my research is on medical filmmaking: films that physicians and other medical professionals made for each other. It turns out that there are a lot of these. Doctors have been making movies since the invention of the … Continue reading