I was awarded a promotion to full profession in Spring 2018 to take effect in August 2018 at San Jose State University – the institution where I have spent my entire career. It’s one of the 23 California State University campuses and the largest higher ed institution in the United States. We primarily serve first ..read more

It’s January 2023. I’m at only my second live, in-person conference since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. And, it’s the Modern Language Association annual convention – the behemoth where I get to bump into my old pals and serendipity prevails. The convention hallways are rife with mask-covered faces that I’ve really, really missed these ..read more

When former President Mary Papazian took over SJSU, she instilled in the entire university a new way to codify and value different forms of research, scholarship, and creative activity (RSCA). Every tenure-line faculty member who was already pursuing a RSCA agenda could apply and be awarded a course release each semester for 5 years (with ..read more

Last year, we were DHing it up with everyone else who breathlessly converted to online pedagogies within a week with the expectation that all would be back to normal by April…or…May? Surely by May. Here we are more than a year later. Day of Digital Humanities this year and April 29 followed on some extraordinary ..read more

Today, Dean Shannon Miller made public my move into being the Director of Public Programming for the College of Humanities and the Arts at San Jose State University. It’s a big, bold move, but the work really encompasses what we’ve already been doing with our live event programming initiative for the last 3 years. It’s ..read more

I’ve mentioned a few times this social annotation assignment over the past year of #pandemicpedagogy — it’s been the best DH-y assignment without really being Digital Humanities. (If you’re using Canvas to set up this assignment, here’s how you do that (in Canvas but should be public). Students in this required course (upper division English ..read more

A full year, almost to the day, of when San Jose State University declared pandemic lockdown and went online with the intention of returning to in-person after Spring Break during the first week of April. We were all thinking that this would be temporary. I even allowed myself to drink sodas on a daily basis ..read more