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  • Austin Clarke, Black Studies, & Black Diasporic Memory

    In late September I was lucky enough to be able to attend both days of a conference dedicated to thinking anew about Austin Clarke’s literary legacy, his work as a public intellectual, and his contributions to Black studies in the United States. Throughout the 1960s Clarke was a visiting Professor at Duke, the University of…

  • Routledge Guide to Canadian Literature & Digital Humanities

    My colleague and collaborator, Sarah Roger, and I recently submitted the manuscript for The Routledge Guide to Canadian Literature & Digital Humanities. This book is part of a Routledge series offering gentle introductions to topics in Canadian literature. Ours focuses on CanLit & DH, the history of the intersections of the two, historical and contemporary…

  • 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…