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Humanities Computing of the past
As part of my research into the history of Humanities Computing in Canada, I’ve come across the following discussion of Swift Current, Frank Davey and Fred Wah’s online magazine hosted out of York University. Swift Current was (one of?) the first online literary magazines and used the ancient networking system, Datapac, for connections. To connect…
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Where From Here? Canadian Literary Cultures
In September of 2022, Sarah Roger, myself, and a team of fabulous graduate students organized a Canadian literature conference at the University of Guelph. The conference, Where From Here? Canadian Literary Cultures, asked participants to think about their revised ideas about Canadian literature after the pandemic, after the garbage fire (?), after the pandemic. The…
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Future Horizons: Canadian Digital Humanities
My colleague and collaborator, Sarah Roger, and I recently published Future Horizons: Canadian Digital Humanities (Ottawa 2023), a collection of essays on the marginal histories, emerging research, and new paradigms of digital humanities work in Canada. This book has been a few years in the making and features a number of cool essays from established…