Alex Juhasz, Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College, will launch the Mellon Digital Scholarship Speaker Series presented by the Center for Digital Learning and Research at Occidental. Please come hear Alex give a talk on her work on FeministOnlineSpaces at 4:30pm on Tuesday, November 15th in the Morrison Lounge. Alex has been invited as our inaugural speaker because her recent work compellingly combines innovative pedagogical experiments with cutting-edge examples of multimodal scholarly communication.

In addition, we will also be hosting a Faculty High-Tech Happy Hour (5:30-7pm) at the Center for Digital Learning and Research where you can further engage Alex and get to know our ...

On Wednesday, April 13th, I had the opportunity to participate in an event coordinated by the Center for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Southern California. I spoke at the event, entitled Alternate Careers for Humanities Ph.D.s, about my own background, Occidental's CDLR, and academic employment possibilities beyond the tenure track. While the talk was explicitly conversational, some of the material discussed referred to materials in the following links.

CDLR at Occidental

Occidental College Center for Digital Learning and Research

Occidental Mellon Grant

Postdoctoral Postions for Humanists

CLIR Postdoctoral Fellows

ACLS...

The NEH's Office for Digital Humanities has posted some videos related to their most recent round of Start-up Grants. These videos provide a glimpse into some interesting individual projects, and are collectively a great introduction and overview of the state of digital humanities work at the moment.

For more details on the projects, you can visit the NEH ODH announcement of the videos.

If you find yourself motivated by these projects, you can apply for your own ODH SUG grant

Stephen Ramsey, of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at U Nebraska - Lincoln, has a nice post on the vibrancy and impermanence of digital scholarship centers. Among other good points, Ramsey suggests that we make an effort to not just praise centers for the mere fact that they exist, or, worse, because now faculty can get tech support from other faculty instead of the IT group, but because in their best forms they can advance knowledge and educate students in a manner that is different than the silos of the rest of academia.

Importantly, he is not arguing for permanent centers, but for a mode of center development that recognizes the role of impermanence:

Universities are designed around subject areas. But what if they were designed, like centers, around methodologies or even questions? Right now, we have English Departments, and...