December, 2011
Alt-Ac: HASTAC 2011 considers careers in the academy that don’t entail the tenure track
Dec. 2, 2011—I had a very affirming moment, the evening of December 1, at the HASTAC pre-conference workshop in Ann Arbor. I learned that my personal career trajectory, which has led me to my present position as the Director of Instructional Technology at the CSLS at Vanderbilt University, has a name: Alt-Ac. Alternative Academic Careers are those...
The voyage begins…
Dec. 1, 2011—Pre-modern travel. “Digital Humanities.” A brave new world not unlike other encounters with new and different cultures. As we navigate this space, new to us though certainly not to others, we are blogging the creation of this site on pre-Columbian contact with the New World in a sort of travel journal inspired by Pordenone, Mandeville,...