It’s Day 1 of #OAWeek2016 and I’ve just signed up to take action to open up research and scholarship during… Continue Reading Open Access Week 2016: Making a Commitment
A Scholarly Haunting: The Possibly Friendly Spectre of the “Professional Instagrammer”
I tweeted about the “serious academic” debacle at the time, but decided against responding any further here or elsewhere. Many… Continue Reading A Scholarly Haunting: The Possibly Friendly Spectre of the “Professional Instagrammer”
The Anthropocene Has Arrived
The Anthropocene has arrived, a new epoch hallmarked by mass-produced and often abused chickens, plastic pollution, and the fallout from nuclear tests:… Continue Reading The Anthropocene Has Arrived
Talkin’ about an Academic Publishing Revolution
“Why aren’t we all just publishing our stuff open access?!?!” This question was asked by a frustrated scholar during a… Continue Reading Talkin’ about an Academic Publishing Revolution
Do Sewing Machines Dream of Electric Patriarchy? Women, Artificial Intelligence, and Misogyny
As a child, my walk home from school brought me past a boat yard every day. For years there was… Continue Reading Do Sewing Machines Dream of Electric Patriarchy? Women, Artificial Intelligence, and Misogyny
Some Thoughts on Creativity
Some #graffiti in #CorkCity provides a good message today for #dayofdh2016 and #uccdigitalis pic.twitter.com/0A7tQR4fSF — Donna M. Alexander (@americasstudies) April… Continue Reading Some Thoughts on Creativity
Starting the First Monograph
I am writing my first book. This means I am returning to my doctoral thesis to pull out the bits… Continue Reading Starting the First Monograph
CASiLaC Seminar on Lorna Dee Cervantes’s Poetry
I have been invited to give a paper as part of the CASiLaC (Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and… Continue Reading CASiLaC Seminar on Lorna Dee Cervantes’s Poetry
Why the New Blog?
I started blogging at an early stage in my PhD research. At the time, academic blogging was a divisive topic.… Continue Reading Why the New Blog?