What’s Critical About Critical Bibliography? A Discussion of a Special Issue of Criticism among Co-Authors and Editors, 6/20/23

This morning, I participated in an organized and moderated hour+ conversation among the contributors to the special issue of Criticism devoted to “New Approaches to Critical Bibliography and the Material Text.” I represented the team of co-authors of our essay, “Activist Bibliography as Abolitionist Pedagogy in the American Prison Writing Archive” by myself, Catherine Koehler, and Doran Larson. “This issue consists of 22 theoretically engaged essays and shorter interventions that foreground under-represented approaches to bibliography, book history, and media studies, incorporating intersectional anti-racist, feminist, queer, postcolonial, labor-centered and disability studies methods. The works in this issue do not merely add representation to…

DH “Book Talk” on the Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing with ARC

For International Women’s Day 2023 #IWD2023: Just released, the Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing‘s “DH book talk” with ARC (Advanced Research Consortium), 18thConnect, and NINES editors featuring Kirstyn Leuner, Deborah Hollis, Chad Marks, and Susan Guinn-Chipman of the Stainforth project; and Emily Friedman, Laura Mandell, Lauren Liebe, and Elizabeth Brissey of ARC. This conversation was an absolute delight for me personally, having so many collaborators and inspiring scholars in the “room” at the same time talking about a project that our team has been collaborating to build and peer-review for the last decade. We are so proud that our project…

Slides: Stainforth Project conversation hosted by Keats-Shelley Association of America, 9 Sept. 2022, Zoom

Thank you to Kate Singer, Mariam Wassif, and the Keats-Shelley Association of America for inviting us to present in an inaugural virtual event, and to Michelle Levy for being our moderator and interlocutor. I’ve included my slides here, which is just one half of the program, as Deborah Hollis (CU-Boulder) gave a presentation following mine on the Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing from a collections and librarian’s research perspective. We were thrilled to have almost 60 registered attendees and a great discussion in Q&A. Helpful links: Slides: For links to many of the projects in my last slide, see https://stainforth.scu.edu/related-projects/.

“How Anne B. Poyntz Lost Her Je ne sçai quoi (1769) to a Patron, a Printer’s Reader, & Google Books” – Technologies of Print Symposium 2.19.21

Here are the slides for my talk, “How Anne B. Poyntz Lost Her Je ne sçai quoi (1769) to a Patron, a Printer’s Reader, & Google Books,” delivered at the Technologies of Print Symposium: Geographies of Meaning on 19 February 2021. I have also included a few additional links for reference. British Library’s catalog record for Je ne sçai quoi : http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01017187626. British Library’s digital library copy of JNSQ: http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100024578154.0x000001 Google Books’ PDF of JNSQ: https://bit.ly/3azqR1q ESTC record for JNSQ: http://estc.bl.uk/T27753 Worldcat record for JNSQ: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/561404295 Thank you to the following people for your assistance with this project-in-progress: John Boneham…

“Why Do Academic Writing? and How to Get It Done” invited lecture for Auburn Univ. at Montgomery

On Friday, October 30, I delivered an invited virtual lecture to the Auburn University at Montgomery campus with the goal of inspiring faculty to invest their time in disciplinary scholarship both for personal and professional reward. My audience included faculty and graduate students in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences and from across the University. I share my slides below. I had a blast delivering this 40-minute presentation followed by Q&A about research and academic writing. Scholarship is a favorite part of my job.

Guest lecturing @ SJSU, #bigger6 graduate seminar, with activities

Last evening, I had the pleasure of guest lecturing in Prof. Katherine D. Harris’s graduate seminar, “#Bigger6: Decolonizing British Romantic Literature (1775-1835) through Print Culture” (ENGL 232), from 7-8:30pm. My presentation had two parts. First, I gave a 45-minute lecture on the Stainforth library and its potential as #bigger6 activism, or the broadening of the scope of Romanticism beyond the study of the same 6-ish white male writers (John Keats, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon Byron, Percy Shelley, William Blake, plus Sir Walter Scott, etc.). After this, I led a 30-minute exploration of DH project planning and management….

RA Interviews: Experiential Learning and The Stainforth Project

Because I have been so lucky to employ fantastic researchers here at Dartmouth and at CU-Boulder to work on the Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing, Dartmouth’s Digital Humanities librarians asked me to present on experiential learning in DH. As a doctoral student, I was also paid to work on a professor’s DH projects that were underway: Laura Mandell’s Poetess Archive and The Letters of Robert Bloomfield. While I can talk about being project director and setting up the infrastructure for experiential learning, details about the outcomes of experiential learning are best gleaned from our researchers, past and present, in their…

“Whither Are We Bound: Romanticism in the Digital Age,” 2016 Whalley Lecture (Queen’s U)

[I delivered the Annual Whalley Lecture on March 11, 2016, at Queen’s University. All the links I mentioned in my talk can be found here in order of mention. Once more, I would like to thank Shelley King, Brooke Cameron, John Pierce, and the entire Queen’s English Department for this opportunity and a wonderful visit.] You may recognize the first part of my title since the Open Syllabus Project tells us that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein appears on more syllabi than any other work of English literature. For those who may not recall Frankenstein, it begins with Captain Walton’s sea voyage…

Delivering the Annual Whalley Lecture, 3/11/16, Queen’s University

Next Friday, March 11, I will be at Queen’s University to deliver the Annual Whalley Lecture: “Whither Are We Bound: Romanticism in the Digital Age.” My talk will explore literary experimentation in the Romantic era as well as in Romantic digital humanities projects. I am really looking forward to this event! (poster credit: Brooke Cameron)

Upcoming Public Lecture 2/18/16, “The Textual Diorama in the Romantic Era: Writing Virtual Ruins”

In 1822-23, a large-scale, theatrical painting show called the Diorama, invented by Louis Daguerre and Charles Bouton, debuted in Paris and London, and it riveted audiences with the recent inventions of realistic 3D illusions and animation. The sensational Diorama inspired authors and artists to invent new forms of storytelling. Building on an emerging body of critical theory and analysis that grapples with non-teleological histories of “old” media, Dr. Leuner identifies a group of authors in the early 19th century who respond to the novelty and special effects of the Diorama by trying to translate these shows into text to enliven…