“In re-reading the manuscript of this book I find I didn’t allow myself to be born.” – A.E. This summer and in the year to come, I am writing and drawing an essay collection about flight, and about how narrative can fail. While I have been digesting different materials, researching clumsy Brood X cicadas (onContinue reading “How to Fly an Essay, and Drawings”

Reflecting on my Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio fellowship work, I realize that this project has involved a variety of new processes for me. The most important process underlying my project has been the search for media materials: specifically, films, news, and user-generated media relating to LGBTQ+ identity in China. The process of searching, reviewing,Continue reading “Exploring Contemporary LGBTQ+ Media in China”

I’m very grateful to the Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio for a summer filled with inspiration, new perspectives, and connections with scholars across different disciplines. I felt both encouraged and challenged by the work of my peers, and I feel a renewed sense of purpose about both this project specifically and the way my workContinue reading “Finding a Form and Refinding a Thread”

A primary motivation in my working within the book arts mediums at the University of Iowa has been a growing interest in creating printed works that elicit more interactive and dynamic viewer engagement—the communication of print across varying forms and sequences. Before artists’ books, I’ve restricted my work in printmaking to the creation of static,Continue reading “More Meaningful and Expressive Digital Artists’ Book Models”

My research broadly focuses on mental health stigma and this Fellowship project explores mental health stigma via deliberate and automatic cognition processes. This project utilizes a concept association task (CAT) to capture how people implicitly associate various concepts with different health conditions. If you have ever taken a free implicit association test (IAT) online orContinue reading “Visualizing Mental Maps and Countering Mental Health Stigma”

Everything takes so much time. Before the summer began, I thought I would have no problem starting and finishing a miniseries of four podcast episodes which would feature an Audiobook style reading of a primary source and a conversation between myself and a Two-Spirit activist or scholar. Tom Keegan intelligently warned me against thinking thatContinue reading “Time”

Since the start of the summer, mapping the trade of Syriac manuscripts has made significant progress. One of the challenges I expected going into this project was the trouble of uncertainty. Much of my attempt to harvest geographic data is dependent on ancient scribes making notes on the book about when and where the bookContinue reading “Ambiguous Translations from Text to Map”

At the beginning of the summer, my goal was to develop materials focused on the complexity of the Costa Rican national identity as expressed through music. I also wanted to learn the basics of a new video editing software. Specifically, I wanted to create video essays and a digital timeline about my topic. At firstContinue reading “Why is the Costa Rican National Orchestra not playing Costa Rican music?”

  Working with digital tools has meant for me to let go of the illusion of control of my creative process. This has been one of my favorite parts of this project and the summer experience. With every new piece of the story, either as part of the content or the form, I have foundContinue reading “Old and new roads”

Over the past few weeks, I have been working on creating a publicly accessible, visual supplement to my current archival research. My dissertation project assesses the state of opera production in the United States during the 1920s, and its scope includes the coverage of multiple national touring productions. As such, I am developing an interactiveContinue reading “Visualizing Archival Data”