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Hacking Together Egalitarian Educational Communities; Some Notes on the...
When I discuss the “Looking for Whitman” project, a multi-campus experiment in digital pedagogy sponsored by the NEH Office of the Digital Humanities, I often emphasize the place-based structure of the...
View ArticleInterviewing Bob Stein
On Monday, I will be meeting with Bob Stein, founder and co-director of the Institute for the Future of the Book, to conduct an interview that will later be published in Kairos. If you think you don’t...
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Clearing Space on the SD Card of a Nexus One Android Phone
CC-licensed photo from Wikimedia So what if Google has discontinued the Nexus One, closed its N1 web store, and released newer Nexus phones to market? None of that fazes me. I love my Nexus One for the...
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On Reading Like a Hawk
Robert D. Richardson, Jr.’s Emerson: The Mind on Fire (1995) is one of my favorite biographies, and not just because I had the good fortune as an undergraduate to study with the author while he was...
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Interview with Bob Stein Now Published in Kairos
I’m happy to report that my interview with Bob Stein (computer pioneer, as Wikipedia disambiguates him), titled “Becoming Book-Like: Bob Stein and the Future of the Book,” is now available in the new...
View ArticleAn Update
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be joining the CUNY Graduate Center this Fall as Advisor to the Provost for Master’s Programs and Digital Initiatives. My charge there will involve working with the...
View ArticleDH and Comp/Rhet: What We Share and What We Miss When We Share
What follows is the text of a short talk I gave at the 2012 MLA as part of the session Composing New Partnerships in the Digital Humanities. Many thanks to session organizer Catherine Prendergast, my...
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Whose Revolution? Towards a More Equitable Digital Humanities
What follows is the text of a talk I gave at the 2012 MLA as part of the Debates in the Digital Humanities panel, which grew out of the just-published book of the same name (more about that in a...
View ArticleBeyond the PDF: Experiments in Open-Access Scholarly Publishing (#MLA13 CFP)
As open-access scholarly publishing matures and movements such as the Elsevier boycott continue to grow, OA texts have begun to move beyond the simple (but crucial!) principle of openness towards an...
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Facts, Patterns, Methods, Meaning: Public Knowledge Building in the Digital...
Note: This talk was delivered as a keynote address at the University of Wisconsin – Madison as part of the Digital Humanities Plus Art: Going Public symposium on April 17, 2015. I am grateful to the...
View ArticleOut of Sync: Digital Humanities and the Cloud
Matthew K. Gold Out of Sync: Digital Humanities and the Cloud This is the text of a keynote lecture I gave at DH Congress at the University of Sheffield on September 10, 2016. I’m grateful to Michael...
View ArticleResponse to Critical Infrastructure Studies Panel
The following is a response delivered at the end of the Critical Infrastructure Studies Panel, which took place at the January 2018 Modern Language Association Conference in New York City. Panelists...
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“Issues of Labor, Credit, and Care in Peer-to-Peer Review Processes”
What follows is the text of a presentation I gave at the MLA 2019 Convention in Chicago, Illinois, on January 5, 2019 in Session 613: Getting Credit in Digital Publishing and Digital Humanities...
View ArticleThinking Through DH: Proposals for Digital Humanities Pedagogy
This presentation was given as a keynote address at the 2019 Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria on Friday, June 7, 2019. I am deeply grateful to Luke Waltzer for his...
View ArticleAltering expectations of our students and ourselves in a time of global pandemic
Across the multiple teams I work on and academic departments I chair, I am trying to reduce expectations of what we, our teams, our students, and our colleagues can be expected to do while in the...
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