When I first submitted my first draft of my first dissertation proposal (not one that would in any way resemble what my dissertation came to be), my then-advisor said something that has stuck with me. He said (and I paraphrase, it’s been a few years), you’ve really set yourself a […]
Yearly Archives: 2012
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?
Arts and Crafts in my American Literature Classroom Note: I don’t post about teaching much, not because I don’t want to, but because the privacy issues are complex. Today, a fun exception! This week my American Novel class worked on “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (I know, it’s a stretch to call […]
Teaching American Literature with Arts and Crafts!
#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 […]