For the following Voyant visualization, I used student essays from one of my Composition I course. For this assignment, the students had to write a proposal argument offering a solution to an environmental problem. This visualization offered some intriguing information. One of which was that the word “plastic” was the most used word at 169 […]

For my reflection of a DH project, I stuck with the theme of Walt Whitman and did a close look at The Walt Whitman Archive.  I have always had an affinity for Whitman’s work, but also for him as a person because he made his personhood so accessible to others.  He was an engaging and […]

In Marie-Laure Ryan’s essay, “Multivariant Narrative,” she discusses the ways in which “digital media” and “digital texts” effect the concept of narrative.  The two specific shifts that stood out for me were the “reactive and interactive nature” and the “peformatial aspect.”  She writes that “[c]omputer code is based on conditional statements (if…then) that execute different […]

One hope that I have for this course is to exit with a body of knowledge and a set of skills that will allow me to incorporate this into my classes.  Being as the walls of the classroom are becoming more and more porous and accessible through the use of technology, I want to capitalize […]