Jun 24
By Erin E. Templeton It’s no secret that ProfHackers are fond of Twitter. Ryan Cordell wrote a thorough and helpful post on “How to Start Tweeting (And Why You Might Want To.” Mark Sample has offered a pedagogical framework on teaching with Twitter as well as <a target=_blank href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/practical-advice-for-teaching-with-twitter/26416" …read more
Jun 21
By Erin E. Templeton Last week, I was fortunate enough to attend the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria. I had been looking forward to the trip for months. I was enrolled in a class on TEI and Primary Sources, I knew a few colleagues and friends would …read more
Jun 20
By Erin E. Templeton Regular readers of the Chronicle are surely familiar with the ongoing discussion about the merits of graduate education both generally and in the humanities more specifically. Whatever your position on the “Go! / Don’t Go!” debate (note: two different links), one thing is clear: more information about …read more
May 06
The essay linked to here was originally published in The Heritages of William Carlos Williams: Points of Contact. Edited by Ian D. Copestake, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. 80-100. The images above, photographs of the dust jacket of Kora in Hell, are relevant to the contents of the article. Specifically, I discuss the significance of the center… Continue Reading “The eternal bride and father—quid pro quo”: William Carlos Williams, Marcia Nardi and Paterson
Apr 30
By Erin E. Templeton As Mark observed last week, ProfHacker has a whole series of posts dedicated to Health and Wellness. In addition to running with/from zombies, we have featured posts on managing stress, fitting in fitness, …read more
Apr 25
By Erin E. Templeton In the fall, I reviewed the Logitech Ultrathin Bluetooth Keyboard for iPad. A few weeks ago, Belkin contacted ProfHacker and asked if we would consider reviewing their Ultimate Keyboard Case. I’ve been putting this keyboard through …read more
Apr 19
By Erin E. Templeton ProfHacker has featured several posts about various mobile apps. See for instance the Open Thread Wednesday dedicated to (y)our Favorite Weather Apps, guest author Ian MacInnes’s post on “Finding the …read more
Feb 13
[This post was originally online at eetempleton.wordpress.com.] In my contribution to the MLA Roundtable, which is titled, “Openness: Too much is Never Enough? Or, at What Cost?”, I am interested in interrogating the term “Open Professoriat.” I want to think about what the term might mean and what it might look like. Like the term, “digital… Continue Reading Open Professoriat: Public Intellectuals on the Social Web (Repost from MLA11)
Feb 11
Sometime in the fall of 2012, I was asked to contribute a short essay on the future of the English Department for Expositions, an interdisciplinary journal of the humanities published by Villanova University. I probably should have come up with a better title for my piece, something more creative and less pretentious, but there you have it.… Continue Reading The Future of the English Dept.
Feb 04
By Erin E. Templeton While we have written posts about various kinds of classroom disruptions, until now ProfHacker hasn’t covered what to do in the event of a medical emergency in the classroom. How would you deal with a student who has an epileptic seizure in class? What if a student passes out, …read more