Application for the Provost’s Digital Innovation Grant: “Digital Alchemy” Applicant Information Mary Catherine Kinniburgh [email protected] Doctoral student in the English Program   Abstract “Digital Alchemy” engages a lab-based model of both critical making and traditional alchemy, based on the provocation that both practices reveal knowledge that is embodied, esoteric, and iterative. Given the interconnectedness of […]

No, no it’s not books at all you’re looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were […]

Note:: This site is a draft of parts of my forthcoming book, Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queer Women, 1983-2008. No aspect of this text can be reprinted, cited, or quoted. I am just leaving this here as a block to fiddle with Social Paper. Which rocks. ** Chapter One New York, […]

I threw this proposal together in response to a CFP for an MLA panel. It’s for a paper I haven’t yet written, but have been looking for an excuse to write. Feedback would be greatly appreciated!

 The editor is breaking my emojis!  Oh well…  This paper is a working document for jotting down some thoughts I have on digital tools and learning, and related stuff I might be interested in doing/making. I could eventually organize this and turn it into an actual paper, or I could keep it casual and use it […]

In 1954, Lionel Trilling declared, with regard to Mansfield Park, that “no other work of genius has ever spoken, or seemed to speak, so insistently for cautiousness and constraint, even for dullness” (11). Trilling’s assessment of Austen’s third novel as overwhelmingly concerned with “security, … fixity, and enclosure,” combined with his blithe dismissal of Fanny […]

Introduction Newspapers from the nineteenth and early twentieth century have a troubled future. Intended from the outset to be “important today, discarded tomorrow,” printed on large sheets of cheap paper that make them expensive to index, hard to photograph, and challenging to preserve (Deegan et al., n.d., p. 3), they are sometimes available to the […]