Call for Publications: Textshop Experiments, Spring/Summer 2019
This January, I posted a new Call for Papers for the next issue of Textshop Experiments. This will be an open double-issue with a rolling submission deadline. My goal here … Continue reading
Bob Brown’s Houdini
I’m happy to announce the publication of the latest title from Roving Eye Press: Houdini. The title is number 5 for Bob Brown’s revamped mobile small press. Originally published in … Continue reading
Where the Angels Lived: Coming Soon from Calypso Editions
I am pleased to announce the next title to be released from Calypso Editions: Margaret McMullan’s Where the Angels Lived. Margaret also published the novel Aftermath Lounge (2015) with Calypso. … Continue reading
Bob Brown Bubbles
As I begin to consider the next phrase of Roving Eye Press, I have been researching more of Bob Brown‘s poetry, including a lot of poems not included in some … Continue reading
Lest We Forget! A Poem
LEST WE FORGET! The World is Round and Very Wet! By Bob Brown Pilsener beer from a tall frosted glass at Luchow’s … Continue reading
America’s First Polish Immigrants: Another Look at Jamestown
Continuing this thread on Jamestown, at the end of class I offered an example of brainstorming research topics. The example I used built from our reading of John Smith’s General … Continue reading
The “Other” Residents of Jamestown
In the last post, I noted two trends in my American History survey classes: (1) Students arrive to the class unaware of what was once popular narratives in the story … Continue reading
Teaching Jamestown, Virginia … Again and Again
One of the ongoing challenges in teaching a survey class in American history is making decisions on what to cover in the limited amount of time 14 weeks and 3 … Continue reading
Required Readings Visualized: Early American Word Clouds
In the previous post, I shared a list of free, online word cloud generators. In this post, I offer a couple of examples of word clouds put to use! This … Continue reading
The Best, Free Word Cloud Generators
Word clouds, data clouds, tag clouds, text clouds . . . Regardless of you call them, everyone seems to like these visual representations of text data. First popularized over a … Continue reading
Free Books, Open Libraries: 15 Resources for Everyone
Many of my upper-division courses focus on the same general set of questions: How does digital media disrupt “conventional” structures? Structures here range from thought processes and reading and researching … Continue reading
Every Season’s Greetings: The Importance of “Green” Spaces for the Older Adult
This post originally appeared on The Upside to Aging on January 22, 2019. I am grateful to the editor, Molly Wisniewski, for permissions to republish here. Please click here to … Continue reading
James Rivington, American Printer
James Rivington (1724-1802) was an English-born printer/publisher and journalist in New York City during the American Revolution. Prior to the revolution, he was one of the most popular and widely … Continue reading
Returning to the Blog: 2019 and the Road Ahead
The second half of the 2018 was a little rocky for blogging. It was a time of transition here. I defended my dissertation and transitioned to a new teaching position … Continue reading
How to Judge a Book by its Cover
In my June post “Reading by Design,” I shared some early notes on my fall course on the History of Publications Design. Sadly, I didn’t follow-up with this post throughout … Continue reading
Announcement: Textshop Experiments 5 Flash Reason Released
This week, I am pleased to announce the release of the next issue of Textshop Experiments. This is especially noteworthy because it’s the first issue featuring guest editors, and–in addition … Continue reading
Reading by Design … The Great Gatsby
Next semester, I’m teaching another class related to book history and publishing. This course will examine the history and evolution of book design and, specifically, cover art. The question that … Continue reading
Three Poems by Olga Cabral
Electronic Tape Found in a Bottle If this small human testament completes its odyssey clears the curtains of fiery meteors crosses the rages of magnetic storms rides free of hydrogen … Continue reading
Spotlight: Olga Cabral
As fate would have it, as I take a brief hiatus from working on the next project with Roving Eye Press, last week, while shuffling through an old used book … Continue reading
Empire State by Olga Cabral
Empire State I am a prisoner of bones of keyrings habits teeth and hair I am a tenant of torn skies I am a runner in the air of escalators … Continue reading
Accidental Diarist: A Review
The Accidental Diarist: A History of the Daily Planner in America By Molly A. McCarthy. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. 302 pp., HC $90 Pb $30) http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo15357320.html … Continue reading
Writing with Scissors: A Review
Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance By Ellen Gruber Garvey. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 320 pp. 62 ill. HC $115, Pb … Continue reading
The Projector Finds a Hobby
Last week I was happy to report the latest issue of Textshop Experiments was released. The video essays included in this issue include new work by H. R. Buechler, Jimmy … Continue reading
LIVE: Textshop 4 … From Digital to Print
I am happy to announce the release of Textshop Experiments’ Volume 4: From Digital to Print. Contents 100 Questions About Writing And The Future by Jimmy Butts Printed Animals by … Continue reading
The Schoolmaster, Translated
Last week, I noted that I would return to completing my translation of selected poems by Marcel Lecomte. To slowly return to this project and to offer another preview of … Continue reading
365
A few days ago, on New Year’s Eve, I completed my #365DayChallenge of posting one image a day on Instagram. So, for now, I’m taking a little break from social … Continue reading
Classic Comics Covers
For those who know me and my work, it’s no secret that I am interested the relationships between texts and images. So much so that I’ve straddled the line between … Continue reading
16 Weeks with Bob Dylan
Colleges are like old-age homes; except for the fact that more people die in colleges. For me, the environment to write the song is extremely important. The environment has to … Continue reading
An Exercise in Creative-Critical Thinking
The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage Wallace Stevens (1919) But not on a shell, she starts, Archaic, for the sea. But on the first-found weed She scuds the … Continue reading
Beyond Criticism 2017
One of my latest projects this year has been the book series Beyond Criticism published by Bloomsbury. It’s been a busy year here with six books already published and many … Continue reading
Winter 2017-18 at Calypso
My Mother, Resurrected Fabián Casas, Trans. Adriana Scopino Poetry · English · Translation · Bilingual · Spanish 2017 $15.00 Acclaim for My Mother, Resurrected This remarkable translation of Fabián Casas’ poems by Adriana Scopino takes … Continue reading
Mulberry Mummies Marshes
“Mulberry, Mummies, Marshes: This History of Paper” Course Poster, 2017. My latest poster / broadside.
A Tribute to the John Trumbulls
This semester, I again find myself teaching two surveys on early America (situated in both English and History Departments). Each semester, I try to mix up the program and reading … Continue reading
Francis Hopkinson’s Ode to the Fourth of July 1788
This summer, I was awarded a fellowship and small stipend to continue my work on American printing history. The goal was two engage in a reenactment or historical performance / … Continue reading
Fort Garrison, Maryland
From time to time, I’ve written about local (often hidden) historical gems around Maryland. For this post, I wanted to add to this growing list with a building just a … Continue reading
Bookbinding / Bookmaking Workshop Results
Since I’ve posted two prior blog entries on my plans for introducing bookmaking and specifically introducing students to a few binding models, I thought it appropriate to share a few … Continue reading
Sleep Habits & Literary Production
Sleep deprivation is a major problem these days, leading to a host of physical and emotional problems. It has been the focus of many studies in recent decades, and, just … Continue reading
Types of Book-Binding: An Introduction
Building on what I’ve called the Right PATH method (Performance/Production, Aesthetic, Theory, History), I wanted to add a little supplemental guide to types of binding we will cover … Continue reading
An Introduction to Book-Binding … Workshop
Two weeks ago, my paper history course had its latest workshop, on printing. We were fortunate to use the under-utilized printing facility at Stevenson in a workshop led by printer, … Continue reading
Camera-Friendly Copenhagen
I can’t believe that it’s been five years since I visited the city of Copenhagen! This week I was looking through some old photos, in part looking through shots to … Continue reading
Quotes from John Adams
This week in my early America class, we reviewed the presidency of John Adams. As fate would have it, our session happened to land on Adams’ birthday. Part of this … Continue reading
The History of Paper: Getting to Gutenberg
It’s midterms here! Below is a brief review of some of the work and ideas covered in my History of Paper course. The course blog documents a bit more: https://mulberrymummiesmarshes2017.wordpress.com/. … Continue reading
Ian McKellen, Teacher: A Note on Teaching Gesture
In the last few years, I’ve noticed a major shift in my research and in my methods of teaching: a focus on performance. Part of my thinking is a turn … Continue reading
The Best Covers of Bob Dylan Songs
Well, I’m officially halfway through my course on Bob Dylan, and a clear, singular reading of Bob Dylan, the artist, is seemingly further away than ever. But perhaps this is … Continue reading
Pursuit of the Pawpaw: A Sneak Preview
What’s that? A fruit that tastes like a mix between a banana and a mango and that is indigenous to North America? Curious? If you’ve never heard of the pawpaw, … Continue reading
What a Twit!
twit, n.1 Pronunciation: Brit. /twɪt/ U.S. /twɪt/ Forms: Also 15 twyte. Frequency (in current use): Etymology: < twit v. 1. a. An act of twitting; a (light) censure or reproach; … Continue reading
Sounding Out Supplements: Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan’s Influences, Inspirations & Impersonations I’ve been so invested in the History of Paper class, it recently occurred to me that there have been no posts here on another … Continue reading
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This week I received an email notification from WordPress that five years ago I opened this account / website. Although I receive about 250 visitors each month now, I have … Continue reading
Reading as Art: A Micro-Review
Reading as Art Simon Morris, editor. York: Information as Material, 2016. http://www.informationasmaterial.org/portfolio/reading-as-art/ In my own ongoing research investigations of reading publishing as arts practice, I came across this title last … Continue reading
Sampling: The Introduction to the History of Paper Course
I’m very excited about the upcoming weeks of my History of Paper course. I’ve already blogged about setting up the course blog and the first posts will appear soon. I … Continue reading
Paper Infographics
Walter Ong’s classic Orality and Literacy will be one of the first texts we’ll read in my “History of Paper” course this fall. Attached to this reading/discussion, I’ll ask each … Continue reading
Coming Soon . . . Fall Course on the History of Paper
We’re just a week away from the fall semester! I was a little disappointed last year after my pitch for a “History of the Book” special topics class was deemed … Continue reading
Student Projects from Spring ’17, Part 3
Finally, I’ve come to the last part of this series on student projects…in retrospect, I now wish I’ve created a separate website to host or curate all of these projects. … Continue reading
Student Projects from Spring ’17, Part 2
This is Part 2 of the series on student projects from this past semester. The last post featured videos of place-based historical studies. This post shares some images from a … Continue reading
Student Projects from Spring ’17, Part 1
For the next few posts, I wanted to share something a little different: samples of student work produced this past spring. I’ve been teaching American History courses for the past … Continue reading
Shadow of the Moon Turns 20
A few weeks ago, I was asked to contribute an essay on music/history, and, as exciting as the project seemed, I’m afraid I’ll have to turn the offer down. But … Continue reading
Paper-making History: Some Bookmarks
Last fall, I taught courses in the history of graphic design and the history of printing (both Visual Arts courses). Before I got things started, I posted an entry here … Continue reading
Some Flag House Photos
Last week, I spoke at the Start-Spangled Flag House in Baltimore. The museum is truly one of the hidden gems of Baltimore. Located at the edge of Little Italy and … Continue reading
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Last week marked my sixth month on Instagram. Not a big deal for most, I suppose, but at the beginning of the year I decided to create a page for … Continue reading
Summer Work 2017 — The Road Ahead
Well, another semester has finally come to an end, which typically means a new transition–a new type of busy season–is about to begin. I can’t believe I haven’t formally posted … Continue reading
Just Released: Textshop Experiments #3
I’m happy to announce the latest issue of Textshop Experiments. I hope you enjoy it! I haven’t posted in a while and, hopefully, I’ll change that soon! I’ll share a … Continue reading
Forthcoming Textshop Issues: 2017-2018
Our next issue is only one week away!!! As we make the final edits to the forthcoming issue of TEXTSHOP EXPERIMENTS . . . Here’s what’s scheduled down the production … Continue reading
Announcing the Release of Tours & Detours: Textshop Experiments
It’s been a busy winter so far. I’ll resume my monthly posts shortly. In the meantime, in case you missed it, in December, Felix Burgos and I published the second … Continue reading
A New Video from Calypso Editions
Last week, I completed a promotional video for Calypso Editions. Lots of exciting work being done here. Calypso’s members are currently reviewing our fall submissions. We are very excited for … Continue reading
TE Tours and Detours (Special Issue) Coming Soon . . .
Coming in December . . . Textshop Experiments‘ Tours & Detours (Special Issue)…
Manneqart; or, Marvels at a Mall
September was a month of overload here . . . A few days off following surgery have allowed some time to catch up on the blog and post some of … Continue reading
The Projector Period: New Website
A very short post today to announce that my new website http://www.projectorperiod.com is now live. The Projector site will house my up-to-date C.V. and slowly develop into my professional site. Why … Continue reading
Book/Marks: The Digital Humanities Meets the Public Humanities
In one of my last posts, I shared a few videos on the Gutenberg press and letterpress printing for a class that’s now underway. I like this approach of sharing … Continue reading
Course Design Matters: A New Course Blog & Some Reflections
‘Course Design Matters: ART 335 “Origins & Issues in Design”: Course Blog https://coursedesignmatters.wordpress.com Teaching is an important part of my life. I’ve spent the last 12 years working in higher … Continue reading
Blue Structure — Calypso Editions’ Latest Title
Blue Structure by Jan Freeman 68 pages $15.00/Book Calypso Editions Acclaim for Blue Structure “In this strangely beautiful and long-awaited collection, Jan Freeman again brings her rich, lyric gift to bear on … Continue reading
Electracy is spreading . . .
Electracy is spreading . . . We are mixing and we were going to (re)mix. One month left to submit to Textshop Experiments‘s Tours & Detours issue. Visit our website … Continue reading
Printing History Videos: Some Bookmarks
This fall I will be teaching a course on printing history. This post is really just a set of bookmarks for me–especially for the early weeks on Gutenberg and the … Continue reading
Shopping in Tuscany
To celebrate the last month of summer holidays, I’d like to share my poem “Shopping in Tuscany” and the story behind it. Like a lot of my poems that appear … Continue reading
New Video from Textshop Experiments
Our new promotional video / Call for Papers for Textshop Experiments. For our next issue, TOURS & DETOURS, we are accepting traditional essays, video essays, experimental intermedia projects, book reviews, … Continue reading
Tours & Detours: Textshop Experiments
CALL FOR PUBLICATIONS Textshop Experiments (ISSN: 2377-9039) http://textshopexperiments.org/ Issue #2: Tours & Detours The theme of this issue, Tours and Detours, is intended to provoke a wide variety of topics … Continue reading
The Textshop (T)issue
I am pleased to announce the inaugural issue of Textshop Experiments (ISSN: 2377-9039). This issue collects a variety of experimental essays, tissues, in one way or another, connected to the … Continue reading
New Chapbook Making Faces
I am happy to announce the release of my new poetry chapbook, Making Faces. The book is now available via Amazon: http://amzn.to/1UwLwDp. Thanks to everyone who has supported this work. … Continue reading
New Poetry at Coldnoon & Sour Grapes
I have a new set of poems recently published at Coldnoon Travel Poetics: The International Journal of Travel Writing and a poem in the regional journal Sour Grapes (finally, a journal … Continue reading
New Bob Brown Bio & Roving Eye Press Book Review
This month, Roving Eye Press celebrates the first biography of Robert Carlton “Bob” Brown, written by Craig Saper and published by Fordham University Press and Empire State Editions. Contemporary publishing, … Continue reading
Coming Soon . . . Textshop Experiments Issue 1
Coming Soon . . . Textshop Experiments We are now three weeks away from the release of Issue #1: Textshop (T)issues For our inaugural issue, the editors seek multi-modal projects … Continue reading
Origins and Issues in Design
I’m offering a new course at UMBC in the fall: ART 335 “Origins & Issues in Design”. Remember when life was simpler, and you didn’t have to advertise your courses? … Continue reading
Calypso Editions: Catalog, News & Book Tours
In December, Calypso Editions published Lullaby for a Hanged Man by Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki (and translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood). Calypso is happy to report that Hubert and Julia are … Continue reading
Upcoming DH Workshop at UMBC
Untagling Text: An Introduction to the Digital Humanities Workshop by M. Kirschenbaum & R. Vigilanti (MITH)
Scrabble Friday
Scrabble Friday at work… Electracy on the brain?
Textshop Experiments Promotional Posters
Textshop Experiments is an open access journal that aims to extend the work of Greg Ulmer and to foster experimental works that invent, operate in, or analyze the apparatus of … Continue reading
Digital Exhibition: Mill Girls
During the Fall 2015 semester, I helped Dr. Lindsay DiCuirci teach a graduate seminar entitled “Women and American Periodicals” at UMBC. The course highlighted some of the United States’ most … Continue reading
A Short List of Word Cloud Generators
In the last post, I shared four word cloud silhouettes of texts from revolutionary America. And at the end of 2015, I shared a list DH journals. I thought it … Continue reading
Multi-modal Pedagogy & Word Cloud Silhouettes
For the past four years, I have tried to incorporate a digital or multi-modal project in every course I teach. Since not all students are English or History majors, my … Continue reading
TEXTSHOP EXPERIMENTS: CALL FOR PAPERS
Textshop Experiments (ISSN: 2377-9039) is a new open access journal that aims to extend the work of Greg Ulmer and to foster experimental works that invent, operate in, or analyze … Continue reading
2015 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about … Continue reading
New Interview at Rkvry Quarterly
Last week, I was interviewed by Mary Akers, author and Editor-in-Chief at R.kv.r.y Quarterly Literary Journal. We talked about the writing process, my experiences in publishing, and my short piece … Continue reading
New Poem in the Tule Review
I just received the latest issue of The Tule Review, published by the Sacrament Poetry Center, which includes my poem, “Venus and Mars, the Leviathan.”
Lullaby for a Hanged Man
JUST RELEASED: The latest title from Calypso Editions… Lullaby for a Hanged Man Fiction · English · by Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki · Translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood · 86 pages Lullaby for … Continue reading
Bon Anniv, Roland Barthes!
How should we best celebrate the 100th birthday of French critic Roland Barthes (1915-1980)? How do we read the man who read anything as text? I was first dawn to … Continue reading
A Short List of DH Journals
One of the (many) challenges of incorporating a collaborative DH project into the classroom is finding balance…balance between the scope and content of the course itself and the history, tools … Continue reading
Praise for Roving Eye Press
As Roving Eye Press begins work on our next set of publications for 2016, I reflect on what we’ve already achieved. Since Fall 2014, we have re-published four Bob Brown … Continue reading
Just published…New Poems and an Essay
Just published… My poem “Hands Off” @ Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal. Translations of Marcel Lecomte‘s “Interior” and “Forest” @ PING-PONG. A flash-fiction/creative essay hybrid on blues musician Peppermint Harris, “A … Continue reading
Renaming the Streets of Paris
My courses often integrate contemporary news stories and topics in memorialization and public culture. With a chapter in my dissertation focused on hoaxes and after my recent post of selecting … Continue reading
Calypso Editions: Open Call/Reading Period & Recent Titles
Call for Manuscripts Calypso Editions, a cooperative press dedicated to publishing quality literary books of poetry and fiction with a global perspective, publishes four books each year. In order to … Continue reading
The Redesigned 10: The Future of Our Money
Yesterday, an L.A. bookstore started a campaign to make literary icon Joan Didion the female face of the ten dollar bill (#JoanOnTheTen). Didion is arguably more popular than ever. Last … Continue reading
My London Pub Quad
It’s difficult to imagine London without pubs. There’s something special about them. Their history? The experience? The booze? I don’t know. While my English allegiance and affinities lie with the … Continue reading
Goody Goudy!
If there were an individual, readily recognized quality, or characteristic which the type designer could incorporate in drawings that would make any one type more beautiful, legible, or distinguished than … Continue reading
Sell/fish Fault Finder
A Pun.–(We abominate puns). Some weekly finds; or this is what I do.
Writing & Loneliness
“If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.” ~Jean-Paul Sartre In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are … Continue reading
Goody Two-Shoes
This week I was looking up where the expression “goody two-shoes” originated. A friend used it in conversation and I remarked or rather asked whether or not this is even … Continue reading
A Tribute to Len Fulton . . . and his Small Press Review
Last week I received an email from Susan Fulton Raymond and Kathleen Glanville, editor and publisher of the The Small Press Review, that the May-June 2015 issue would be the … Continue reading
Summer Progress
Summer plans have been largely restricted to completing my dissertation. The carousel forever goes round… I’m constantly struggling with finding that perfect balance between argument and narrative, especially with some … Continue reading
Type: Zapf!
Noted type designer, typographer, and calligrapher Hermann Zapf died last week, on June 4, at his home in Darmstadt, Germany at the age of 96. The creator of approximately 200 … Continue reading
Switching to Summer Gears… and Marcel Lecomte’s “Carnival”
As I switch gears this summer to complete chapters on my dissertation, I predict that I won’t add many posts to this blog throughout the summer. I have nearly completed … Continue reading
Over Sea, Under Stone at 50
Summer has begun, which in my case means concentrating full force on my dissertation, I remember when it meant something not all that different…summer reading. When I was small, Friday … Continue reading
Flanders Fields
Today marks the 100th anniversary of John McCrae’s war poem “In Flanders Fields.” McCrae, a Canadian writer, artist and soldier/surgeon in the Great War, was inspired to write the poem … Continue reading
There, B’More Gray Matters
Baltimore will always be my city. I was born here, and, no matter where I move, it seems I always come back. The violence following the death of Freddie Gray … Continue reading
Bob Brown’s 1450-1950
Brown invents a type of slapstick poetic burlesque. Calling it visual poetry is too staid and decorous; call it scratch & scrawl. ~Craig Saper I am happy to announce that … Continue reading
Twelve Ways of Looking . . . at a Textshop
[NOTEBOOK/FRAGMENTS . . .] The book imitates the world as art imitates nature. ~Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari For Deleuze & Guattari, the tree serves as an image or metaphor … Continue reading
UK Research
For most of March, I’ve honed in on my dissertation–finishing up research on two chapters and writing. I spent nearly two weeks in England attending a conference on eighteenth-century print … Continue reading
The Ulmer Textshop Goes Live!
For the past year, I served as an editorial assistant on Greg Ulmer’s collection of essays Electracy: Gregory L. Ulmer’s Textshop Experiments. The anthology compiles a number of Ulmer’s previously … Continue reading
Toad Suck #5: With New Translations of Marcel Lecomte
This week, I received copies of the latest issue of the Toad Suck Review, which published a number of my translations of Marcel Lecomte‘s poetry. Among the laundry list of … Continue reading
Calypso Editions
Just after New Year, I was invited to join Calypso Editions, an artist-run, small press dedicated to publishing quality literary books of poetry and fiction with a global perspective. More … Continue reading
For the Crows: The Remix
I am fan of the work of Punctum Books and the journal postmedieval and, to some extent, those theorists investigating Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO). I am especially interested in the ways … Continue reading
For the Crows: The Broadside
In November, I began talks with the folks at Hot Air Press to reprint a limited edition broadside of the Francis Hopkinson poem “Ode” for a July 2015 release. The … Continue reading
The Train Garden
For the past thirty years, my father has built and displayed a train set for the holidays. What started with one train and a handful of buildings has grown into … Continue reading
2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about … Continue reading
Roving Eye Press: Open Access
The first series of Roving Eye Press has officially been released and sent out to friends of the press and reviewers. The books are available in Hardcover, Kindle, and now … Continue reading
November Work
I survived my week of three talks on top of my usual schedule of classes, meetings, and other duties… On Monday, I delivered a short talk at the Dresher Center … Continue reading
Bollman’s Bridge
In my last post, I noted my rediscovery of photos and files of my short-lived journal The Bridge . . . Speaking of bridges (literally): my favorite . . . … Continue reading
The Bridge: A Travel Writing … Archive
This weekend, I found a collection of photos in storage from a journal I tried to start while studying at the University of Baltimore: The Bridge: A Journal for Travel … Continue reading
Bel Air’s Post Office … And Tudor Hall
For the past semester, I’ve been re-thinking about post offices. My ongoing project Maryland by Mail (still under construction) examines the ways in which individuals use and explore online maps, … Continue reading
Named Residential Fellow at The Dresher Center, UMBC
I was recently named a 2014 Residential Fellow at The Dresher Center for the Humanities at UMBC. The Fellowship provides me with an office in the new Performing Arts and … Continue reading
Roving Eye Press
This summer, while preparing for my comprehensive exams, I was offered the great honor of managing the (re)construction of Roving Eye Press, a peer-reviewed, scholarly press dedicated to re-issuing the … Continue reading
Published Poem & Review
My poem “How to Fold a Map” was recently published in latest issue of The Clackamas Review. And I recently reviewed Redell Olsen’s Film Poems (Los Angeles: … Continue reading
Comment to Chappelle?
Please check out my latest article on Dave Chappelle, entitled, “Comment to Chappelle: The Return of Dave Chappelle and the Future of Comedy” appearing in the online magazine, The Artifice. … Continue reading
Chappelle @ Radio City
This past week, it was announced that Dave Chappelle will do a number of shows at the Radio City Music Hall, June 20-27. To promote the shows, last night, … Continue reading
The Washington Press
This Date in History Sentimental? Perhaps. I certainly enjoy anniversaries . . . those “this-date-in-history” snippets in print or on television. Yesterday, I was reading up on printing history and … Continue reading
APHA Visit to Baltimore Museum of Industry
Overview of our Tour Despite having been born and raised in Baltimore, it’s funny that I don’t remember ever visiting the Baltimore Museum of Industry, not on a Saturday family … Continue reading
UMBC Insights Blurb
Kevin Wisniewski, LLC Doctoral Student, Named 2014 Michael Denker Chesapeake Chapter Fellow Language, Literacy and Culture doctoral student Kevin A. Wisniewski was recently named a 2014 Michael Denker Chesapeake Chapter Fellow … Continue reading
Polyseme: The Language, Literacy, & Culture Review
After hearing horror stories of the closets that 3-5 graduate students often share throughout their doctoral work and seeing first-hand the tiny spaces in which some full-time professors reside, I … Continue reading
Rethinking Intellectual Activism @ LLC
This weekend Emek Ergun and a committee of doctoral students in the Language, Literacy, and Culture PhD Program at UMBC held our first annual graduate student conference: “Rethinking Intellectual Activism.” … Continue reading
My First Artist Book: Davy Crockett
It’s amazing how many books and papers and little knickknacks and strange odds and ends we accumulate each year. Every spring, I sell, donate, recycle, shred and throw away, piles … Continue reading
Interaction, Performance and Introductions to Bodies and Space
I was recently invited to participate in an online discussion on the current state of interactivity in new media art. The forum is the first in the 2014 series from … Continue reading
Teaching Digital History: A Review
Teaching History in the Digital Age. By T. Mills Kelly. (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2013. 184 pp. HC $70.00; OA DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/dh.12146032.0001.001) This year, nearly three thousand … Continue reading
DRUCKWORKS @ UMBC
Druckworks: 40 Years of Books and Projects by Johanna Drucker Monday, September 16 – Monday, December 20 Druckworks: 40 Years of Books and Projects by Johanna Drucker Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, … Continue reading
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