Oh wow that's a great idea

If you're in Chicago tomorrow, go check out "321 Plays for Trans Futures". There'll be a video recording at some point, too!

It was such a great talk and panel!

This fellowship grew from @walshbr.bsky.social running a pilot of a teaching exercise in his book on speculative budgeting w/staff+students; he & @spw4s.bsky.social built on student suggestions for funding faculty+PhD student teams, & UVA Data Analytics Ctr's interest in outreach to UVA humanists

Yessss I love all this.

Is our zoom coffee in there??

Still keep meaning to return to this manuscript. Maybe after I'm done with this current book project.

Buried in the Woolf chapter is my project on machine learning and quotation marks, my @scholarslab.bsky.social fellowship project that helped bounce me into a DH career.

The shorthand I use to describe it was often Joyce + record collecting, Hughes + jazz performances and poetry readings, Woolf + sound recording devices. The major takeaway was that sound recordings are social devices that enable new community formations, and literary recordings are no different.

His response was always "you're fine."

The project sat at the intersection of literary studies, media history, and digital humanities and looked at the strange character, afterlives, and receptions of literary sound recordings. A common question I had with my director was "are there enough books in here to pass as a lit dissertation?

I mean I pitched a character that was secretly piloted by a goldfish in a tank hidden in a person's chest. So I don't say that lightly!