Our mapping incarceration project is a Digital Humanities project. It uses the affordances of digital media to make an argument, and the media are a…
Recidivism
“A recidivist is a person who is released from prison and who later commits another crime, or reoffends, such as a parole violation or the commission of…
Digital Multimodality: Telling the Story of Your Place by Focusing on *People* & *Pathos*
For our mapping project, we are crafting linked digital essays about the places we are mapping. The story of a place often resides in the…
Close Reading
Close reading is the careful, sustained analysis of any text that focuses on significant details or patterns and that typically examines some aspect of the text’s…
Annotation for Critical Reading
Here’s my method when working with printed, bound books. (My method is slightly different when reading longer books online.) While I’m reading a text–let’s say…
Wednesday’s Class
Welcome to our second class! This class is fully online — not in our classroom. You can complete the classwork at your own pace and…
Monday’s Class
Welcome to our first class! This class and Wednesday’s class are fully online — not in our classroom. (Our first in-person meeting is on Friday…