Margaret Konkol
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Apr 10
Wearable Tech
This wearable puts a new meaning to ‘off the cuff.’ Besides the novelty, this keeps the wearer safer as in able to focus one’s surroundings, not on one’s phone. Thanks, Stephanie for sharing this: https://www.digitaltrends.com/wearables/levis-smart-jacket-changed-how-i-use-my-phone/
Mar 02
Excited about Dickinson? MLA 2019
If you want to submit, let me know as I’ll be happy to give you feedback on your abstract. CFP for MLA 2019 The Emily Dickinson International Society invites proposals for presentations exploring Dickinson and race in relation to nineteenth-century print and material culture and/or through Critical Race theory. Deadline is March 5. Contact person Stephanie Farrar …
Mar 01
Annie Albers: “what is a textile problem?”
D’An alerted me to this great piece about On Weaving, a full-length study of textiles written by Annie Albers and based upon her own practice. Albers attended Bauhaus and later taught at Black Mountain College, along with Robert Creeley and others: https://hyperallergic.com/428089/anni-alberss-thoughts-on-textiles-loom-large/
Feb 28
A pertinent NEH Summer Institute
The deadline for this NEH Summer Institute is Thursday, but may be of interest. . . NEH Summer Institute in 2018 for College and University Faculty, The Book: Material Histories and Digital Futures The four-week Institute will take place June 18 to July 13, 2018 at Salt Lake Community College (SLCC). Applications for the Institute are accepted from …
Feb 19
Relationship between texts and textiles / skin and writing
If you don’t already know Jen Bervin’s work, check out her textual practice her weaving at Gridspace, Silk poems, and the Dickinson composite series. Also, thanks to Stephanie for bringing the opera Written on Skin to my attention. Here is a snippet from the Hyperallergic article about it: “The scenes evoke medieval triptych altarpieces, and …
Feb 13
Have you seen this? (teaching and research news, cfps, etc)
Periodically I’ll post relevant news and cfps to our course site. This great write-up of teaching Amy Earhart and Maura Ives are engaged in at Texas A & M should be of interest: http://blog.historians.org/2018/01/race-print-and-digital-humanities-pedagogical-approaches/ Here’s a highlight: “Our class was structured to allow for both theoretical discussions regarding scholarly texts as well as hands on …
Jan 11
Two Robert Creeley poems for discussion this evening (no need to read in advance)
The Language Locate I love you some- where in teeth and eyes, bite it but take care not to hurt, you want so much so little. Words say everything. I love you again, then what is emptiness for. To fill, fill. I heard words and words full of holes aching. Speech is a mouth. Words …
Jan 09
Welcome to the class
Texts and Technologies ENGL 701/801 | Spring 2018 | Thursdays 7:10-9:50pm Office Hours 2:00-4:00 PM Thursday and by appointment (in my office or through Google Hangouts). Office: BAL 4046 Room: BAL 2019 & web conference (distance) Dr. Margaret Konkol | mkonkol@odu.edu |