Category Archives: Teaching

Want to “Save the Humanities”? Pay Adjuncts to Learn Digital Tools

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Higher education is experiencing its Napster moment, its Amazon moment, and administrators are implementing online learning modules to compete. Disintermediation: what iTunes did to record stores and Amazon did to bookstores, textbook companies are beginning to do to residential university … Continue reading

What I’m Doing As a Fulbright Scholar

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I’m the 2014-2015 U.S. Fulbright Scholar of Digital Culture at the University in Bergen. Here’s what I’ve been up to. Essays published or submitted fall 2014 –“Judy Malloy’s seat at the (database) table: a feminist reception history of early hypertext.” … Continue reading

Electronic Literature at UiB!

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This post conveys information for DIKULT 203, Electronic Literature. You’ll find here a course description, our reading schedule, assignments, grading rubrics, and links to electronic literature collections and coding resources. I’m Professor Kathi Inman Berens, a Fulbright Scholar visiting UiB … Continue reading

Vote Kathi Inman Berens for MLA Executive Council

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In 2011, I rejoined the MLA after a twelve-year hiatus. I was working full time as an Associate Professor (Teaching) of Writing at the University of Southern California (which means: NTT, 3/3, 3-yr renewable contract, stable employment, no sabbatical or … Continue reading

Submit Art! E-Lit First Encounters due 2/15/14

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Do you remix, write stories, play with image and text? Have you ever jumped into a story as it unfolds on a Twitter hashtag? If you’re a teacher, please share this with your students even if you don’t teach media … Continue reading

Introduction: Digital Humanities & New Media

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LIT 306E Weekly Schedule Professor Kathi Inman Berens Marylhurst University, Winter 2014 WEEK 1 — SONG FOR A COMMON CULTURE Stephen Ramsay, The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around; or What You Do With a Million Books T.S. Eliot, “The Wasteland” app … Continue reading

Cultures of New Media at USC

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/// a class that meets both on campus & via virtual classroom software /// ANNENBERG COMM 340 – FALL 2013 CULTURES OF NEW MEDIA 9:30am – 10:50am ASC 231 & via ADOBE Connect: links provided for each class session INSTRUCTOR … Continue reading

Trace of Race: E-Lit, Computation, DH

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Today I made a 17-minute audio lecture to guide DH 306 students through this week’s readings & assignment. This week we’re talking about e-lit and identity formation, and the role software plays in eliciting our interactivity with — our performance … Continue reading

Trillions of Tropes & Tweets in 2 Weeks

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I’m guest teaching a two-week unit about electronic literature in Jesse Stommel‘s new Digital Humanities program at Marylhurst University. Yesterday I made a 27-minute audio lecture to guide students through this week’s reading & assignment. Mainly it focuses on Hayles’ … Continue reading