After last week’s discussion with Matthew Kirschenbaum, I have been thinking more and more bout “the thingness of things” and the physical medium needed to store and convey digital text […]
Author Archive | Rebecca Olerich
“Literature is not Data…” (so writes Stephen Marche)
While reading Monmonier’s book on maps for class, I came across Stephen Marche’s lambast against digital humanities in the current issue of LARB. He seems to imply that scholars will […]
Graduate Education Reform
Some common themes in the literature regarding graduate education reform range from getting rid of the perception that the only goal of earning a PhD in the humanities is a […]
Preliminary Thoughts on Peer Review
Kathleen Fitzpatrick in Planned Obsolescence, dates the advent of peer review as far back as 1752 to the Royal Society of London’s journal, Philosophical Transactions, and possibly even earlier to […]