Media Mirrors: A New Website

28Apr22

I am excited to launch a new project called Media Mirrors: Critical Analysis of Film & TV and Film & TV! This website collects undergraduate student writing that has emerged from my course Key Concepts in Film & Media Criticism. The site emerged from a decision many years ago to encourage my students to write […]

Filed under: Academia, Film, Media Studies, Middlebury, New Media, Teaching, Television   |  Leave a Comment
Tags: 30 rock, adaptation, all that jazz, boogie nights, digital humanities, digital publishing, one cut of the dead, pedagogy

Evaluating Digital Scholarship, or Confessions of an External Reviewer

23Mar14

At the Society for Cinema & Media Studies conference in Seattle, I am part of a workshop on “Making Digital Scholarship Count,” where we are discussing how to frame digital projects for hiring, tenure, and promotion. One of the points that I am making is that external reviewers in the tenure process are important figures […]

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Tags: digital humanities, digital publishing, tenure

Thoughts on Blogging for Tenure

04Jan12

I recently was contacted by Stephen Olsen from the MLA, who is coordinating a pre-conference workshop entitled “Evaluating Digital Work for Tenure and Promotion: A Workshop for Evaluators and Candidates” taking place on the 5th of January at this year’s convention. For the session, they are organizing a number of case studies of digital work […]

Filed under: Academia, Meta-blogging, New Media, Not Quite TV, Publishing, Technology   |  7 Comments
Tags: digital publishing, MLA