Mad Heart Be Brave: Essays on the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali, edited by Kazim Ali, is available for preorder from University of Michigan Press. This collection contains my essay "'This is an Archive': Agha Shahid Ali's Postcards from Kashmir" about postcards that Ali sent to the poet Anthony Hecht that are in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University.
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I enjoyed participating in the Jane Marcus Feminist University Conference at the CUNY Graduate Center on September 9. We had a productive Feminist Digital Pedagogy Breakout Session. A description of it is below.
Inspired by Jane Marcus’s groundbreaking work, participants in this breakout session will discuss feminist approaches to teaching literature, history, and culture using digital tools. After considering recent examples, from Smith College’s MOOC on the Psychology of Political Activism: Women Changing the World to Margaret Konkol’s article in Hybrid Pedagogy, “Public Archives, New Knowledge: Moving Beyond the Digital Humanities/Digital Pedagogy Distinction,” we will brainstorm new ways to teach students to formulate complex arguments in digital projects—such as interactive maps, applications (apps), e-books, podcasts, and videos—and strategies for incorporating tools, activities, and projects in existing courses. Participants of all levels, from the curious to the experienced, are encouraged to join this session. For abstracts, see www.shawnaross.com/modernistbrontes Elizabeth Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Brontë Library of Virginia and Leonard Woolf Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University
At Oxford, I recorded the Modernist Marginalia podcast below with Dr Dennis Duncan of the Bodleian Library for his Paratexts Podcast Series.
I look forward to participating in Marsha Bryant's "Oh, The Places Modernist Studies Will Go!" roundtable with James Berg, Carla Billiteri, Mike Chasar, Helen Sword, and Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux at the Modernist Studies Association Conference in Pasadena this November. I will be discussing the digital projects in my Global Digital Modernisms and Writing New York courses, including the student research project below analyzing Barbara Guest's poem "20."
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