Early America and the Digital Humanities: Some Modest Proposals
To kick off this blog, I’ve decided to return to a piece I worked on some six months ago as a paper for Jim Egan’s Society of Early Americanists panel…
Read moreMorning Call Story on Lafayette’s DH Grant
The Morning Call has just published a story on the college’s Mellon grant in digital humanities, prominently featuring my work on the Easton Library Company.
Read moreAnd So the Blog Starts
After running this site as a personal website and podcast for the last few years, I’ve now decided to launch a blog on top of everything else. The Word from…
Read moreThe Word from Porter Street, Installment #17
In this installment I discuss my new role as chair of the steering committee for Lafayette’s Mellon grant in digital humanities and the changing format of this podcast. Reading: Li…
Read moreThe Word from Porter Street, Installment #9
And here’s the podcast! This gives background on my Easton Library Company project and discusses my future plans for it. Includes a reading from Susan Warner’s “The Wide, Wide World.”…
Read moreThe Word from Porter Street, 2nd installment
Click below to listen to the latest installment of The Word from Porter Street. Topics in this installment include digital audio, the place of the spoken word in literary criticism,…
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