Progress Update on the Modern British Archive
After a brief pause to reevaluate resources, aims, and methods, the Modern British archive of the Foreign Literatures in America project is back on track [...]
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May 2012
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Apr 2012
Housekeeping
The Site I’ve now updated the “Examples of Work” page on digitalmishnah.org to include viewable samples. Thanks to Kirsten Keister for setting up the light [...]
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Apr 2012
Taking Stock
This will be one of my last blog entries prior to the launch of the Black Gotham Digital Archive so it seems like an appropriate [...]
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Apr 2012
Carla Peterson Wins 2011 NYC Book Award for Black Gotham
We are thrilled to announce that Carla Peterson, professor of English at the University of Maryland and MITH Faculty Fellow has won a 2011 New [...]
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Apr 2012
Names of the Game
For the past six to seven months I have been leading the way for developing what we hope will be the first full blooded Foreign [...]
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Apr 2012
Carla Peterson Interviewed by Brian Lehrer
On Monday, April 9th CUNY TV show host Brian Lehrer will interview Carla Peterson on her book, Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans [...]
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Apr 2012
Archive of Emotion
Often in working on a project, we tend to focus on the series of day-to-day tasks and the minutiae and forget the greater issues and [...]
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Mar 2012
The Black Gotham Digital Archive: The Draft Riots of July 1863
I found this note in the Harry A. Williamson Papers at the Schomburg Center while doing research for Black Gotham. It’s a central document in [...]
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Mar 2012
Progress, real but in small steps
I had been holding out for my next post for a new Digital Mishnah website, courtesy of MITH, and a new collation demo hosted on [...]
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Mar 2012
My Dissertation in the Year 2112
I am defending my dissertation this semester. When I have successfully completed this task, I will be required by the University of Maryland to submit [...]