Rethinking the Dissertation
byBy Natalie Berkman For our second session, the Connected Academics proseminar fellows visited Ithaka S+R, a nonprofit higher education think tank in Manhattan. While…
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Comparative Literature, Digital Humanities, and the Interstitial PhD
by“Oh, you have a PhD, so you must be a professor?” Emily McGinn, digital humanities coordinator at the University of Georgia, is not unfamiliar with the question. As she says, “The resulting blank stare is often followed by something like, “So … you scan stuff?” Such is the nature of the alt-ac existence, not quite legible, almost interpretable, nearly recognizable.”
Arizona State University: Vision Statement
byASU’s plan for the Mellon/MLA Connected Academics project offers an ambitious set of innovations to traditional graduate training in languages and literature. It augments…