Brian Croxall, a visiting professor of English at Clemson University, couldn't afford to travel to Philadelphia for the 2009 MLA. Delivered in absentia, his paper on the plight of contingent faculty members was a sleeper hit of the conference anyway. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
Writing
“The MLA Convention in Translation”
As digital humanists debated what kind of scholarly culture they have created, Twitter added a lively social overlay to the 2009 MLA proceedings in Philadelphia and, in some quarters at least, looked like the real story of the conference. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
“Hot Type: A Few University-Press Books Hit Mainstream ‘Best Of’ Lists”
Having grown increasingly skeptical over the years about how those best-books-of-the-year lists are put together, I didn't expect to see many university-press titles in this year's roundups. I found ever fewer than I thought I would. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
“Archive Watch: New Orleans Stomp”
Now that so many archives have gone digital, it can be easy to forget that many collections exist only partly online, if they have a digital component at all. An interesting case is the William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz at Tulane University. I sat down with the archive's director, Bruce Boyd Raeburn, to talk about the collection, jazz scholarship, and how the brass-band tradition will not die. Read More at Wired Campus »
“A Monk Saves Threatened Manuscripts Using Ultramodern Means”
A profile of Father Columba Stewart, a Benedictine monk who directs the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library at St. John's University in Minnesota. Father Stewart and the HMML team seek out collections of rare manuscripts held by Christian monastic communities, many in the Middle East, and help the owners make digital copies of them. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
