Or: PhDeviation as a way of life Almost a month ago, I posted here that I was going to try to start “VersatilePhD” meetup. I had no idea how positive the response would be! Almost as soon as I started organizing it, I realized that I wanted it to be bigger […]
scholarship
Help me out! My research, as you know if you’ve been here before, is in Puerto Rican literature written in the States. None of the books I worked on for my dissertation were 100% monolingual. I’m working with a definition of bilingual on a continuum where one extreme of the […]
Bilingualism in Literature: Where do we find it?
#TransformDH The hashtag #transformDH has taken on a life of its own, and pretty soon I hope to have my chronicle of how it came to be up and readable, but for now, let me say that the mission statement of the #TransformDH Collective (as we have taken to calling […]
Digital Humanities and Puerto Rican Studies
Somehow recently, I’ve been reading a lot of blog posts about blogging, like this one. Setting aside the obvious mise-en-abyme meta-ness of reading any, not to say many, blog posts about blogging, I’ve noticed a theme: excitement. Today (while getting a pedicure, what of it?) I was reading the introduction […]
Excitement. Theory. Passion.
I both hope and sincerely intend to write a longer post about my activities of this week. This week I’ve been at the the Digital Humanities Summer Institute. I took a weeklong seminar entitled “Digital Editions.” The quickest thing to say about it is that it was wonderful. I have […]
Quick DHSI Wrap-up
I’m giving a talk at Suffolk University on Thursday. 1PM. I hope to see you there! They made a lovely flyer. Click here to see or download it (pdf). For the quick facts: “My Dreams is Censored”: Poverty & Women in Black Artemis’ Picture Me Rollin’ Thursday, December 2nd at […]
I have a flyer!
But, a dissertation chapter is a dissertation chapter. The Sunday New York Times struck fear into my heart this week. This doesn’t happen every week, though goodness knows, more often than I’d like. This week brought us this headline: ‘Culture of Poverty’ Makes a Comeback The problem here starts with […]
A Blog Post is Not a Dissertation Chapter

Third in a three-part series: First part. Second part. Those of my readers who are in English or the other modern languages can’t help but know that this is The Week. Whether or not you’re on the job market, the buzz has started and we know that on Thursday, September […]