We are pleased to announce the publication of Alexa Alice Joubin‘s online textbook Screening Shakespeare, just in time for the new academic year! The openly-licensed learning modules in the book cover key concepts of film studies, such as mise-en-scène, cinematography, sound and music, and film theory.
Shakespeare’s plays enjoy a great deal of popularity across the world, yet most of us study Shakespeare’s local productions. Alexa Alice Joubin‘s Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford 2021) addresses this gap through a wide-ranging analysis of stage and film adaptations related to Japan, South Korea, China, Singapore, Tibet, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The New Books Network interview about the book is…
The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. joined PIT-UN in 2020, bringing a wealth of public interest technology experience and expertise to the network. The school has a long history of dedication to the public interest, and in recent years has made public interest technology a particular focus for students and faculty in coding, data…
Announcement: M.W. Bychowski published an article, “Unconfessing Transgender: Dysphoric Youths and the Medicalization of Madness in John Gower’s “Tale of Iphis and Ianthe” in the OA journal Accessus Abstract: On the brink of the twenty-first century, Judith Butler argues in “Undiagnosing Gender” that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) defines the psychiatric condition of…
Check out this podcast on Shakespeare in American Sign Language. Intriguing relationship between medium and message here! h/t Jill Bradbury https://soundcloud.com/folgers…/shakespeare-in-sign-language
Announcement: Haylie Swenson – PHILA podcast and new para-academic endeavors at Punctum+Studium
As previously announced on this blog, GW has been awarded a substantial Andrew W. Mellon grant to support “Resilient Networks to Support Inclusive Digital Humanities.” Competitive jump-start grants of $5000 are now being offered to member-institution faculty pursuing digital humanities projects! Read more about the scale and scope of the Mellon grant here. If you wish…
GW ScholarSpace provides free, public access, broad visibility, and long-term preservation for the research and scholarly works created by GW’s faculty, staff and students.
Announcement: GW Libraries has been awarded a $500,000 collaborative two-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support networked projects in the digital humanities. Congratulations to CCAS Dean Ben Vinson, GW Librarian Geneva Henry, and XD@GW (Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration at GW) Director Diane H. Cline! Read more about this grant at GW Today.
Open Access in the Disciplines: A Conversation October 6th, 12:00-1:30 pm (Gelman Library, Room 702): Learn how faculty from the sciences and humanities have opened their scholarship to the public, and the challenges and benefits they have encountered in the process. Panelists include Paul Brindley (microbiology), Lorena Barba (aerospace engineering), Ami Zota (occupational health), Alexa…
