I'm Baaack ...

Hard to believe that I'vev taken four YEARS off from this kind of work and form this poroject. But I am back with a new project and renewed interest. In 2005 when I started working with digitizing Shelley's Perkin WarbeckI was struck by just how limited the role of digital humanties could be for an average professor at an average university. Unless it became teh focal point of a program or initiative, unless it was teh VISION of soomeone very influential high in teh food chain, this was not going to be a project or set of projects that got very far. Excitingly, to me, this is changiing. More and more institutes and conferences are making access to information more possible for moderatelky or poor funded institutions. I for example will be attending this year's DHSI in Vancouver, where I will spend 4 glorious days living in a dorm and focusing on pedagogies that utilize DH. FOr my test case I am going to bring a gift book from 1833 or maybe the short novella from Blackwoods titles "Letters from the Peninsula." "letters" and its author Hamilton were supposed to be the focus of my sabbatical... the sabbatical taht vanished and weas replaced by a semester as a new administrator ... Not sure how I feeel about that yet, but that is orobably the focus for a different blog ... or maybe not. But it's not teh focus for today because I am out of time and need to help my kids get up and ready for school. Vale!