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

Posted in Academic Life | Tagged , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Teaching HTML & CSS

This week I twice taught a two-hour workshop introducing Emory people (students, faculty, and staff) to the very basics of HTML & CSS. The workshop was called How a Website is Born: The Very Basics of HTML & CSS, and … Continue reading

Posted in Teaching, Web Design | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

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 , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

PowerPoint as a mode of knowledge production

I think about PowerPoint a lot, and judging by the reams of blog posts, screeds, and instructional books on the topic, I’m not the only one. The interesting thing about PowerPoint is that it’s not that new. Well, PowerPoint is, … Continue reading

Posted in research, Tools | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

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 , , , , | 1 Comment

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

Posted in Libraries, research | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment