Extra Credit: “Discovery” Blog: up to 1%
This blog assignment can be written at any point during the semester is intended to inspire you to read beyond the texts assigned in class. For this blog, you will select a reading in the Penguin Anthology that is not on our syllabus and write a blog post about why it is important to your understanding of literature and the environment, and/or to our focus on mermaids. Your post should contain a thesis and textual explication/close reading to receive credit.

Extra Credit: Event & Blog: Attend an event and write a blog post explaining how the event/extra-curricular learning extends and enhances our learning.

Snatching Joy: Black Feminist Approaches to Digital Humanities

Snatching Joy: Black Feminist Approaches to Digital Humanities
2-3pm Wednesday, March 20th, Virtual Event
DH@SDSU is excited to announce that Catherine Knight Steele will present her talk “Snatching Joy: Black Feminist Approaches to Digital Humanities” at 2pm on Wednesday, March 20th. Steele is the author of “Digital Black Feminism” and the director of the Black Communication and Technology lab at the University of Maryland.

This is a virtual event, click to view event details and register for the Zoom link

The digital activities of Black women online point us toward snatching joy as an act of resistance, expression of pleasure, and a speculative act of world-building. In this talk, Steele walks through the praxis of Digital Black Feminism online, and the implications for those who wish to incorporate Black feminist practices into their online lives, scholarship, teaching, and digital humanities work.

The Digital Ethnic Studies Speaker Series is funded by the College of Arts and Letters Interdisciplinary Research Cluster program. Co-sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies and the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences (MALAS).

4.11.24: Environmental Humanities scholar and creative writer Gretchen Henderson (UT-Austin) will present “Listening to Water: Blue Humanities & Life in the Tar Seeps” from 12-1:30pm in the Finch Conference Room (AL-660). Please visit: https://www.gretchenhenderson.com/ for more on Gretchen’s work

5/3/24 Annual Digital Humanities Showcases and Electronic Literature Competiton
Our Digital Humanities Showcase is a celebratory exhibition of the creative-critical digital work happening at SDSU. All members of the SDSU community are invited to share their works at any stage of development, from initial design to completed project. This year’s annual Digital Humanities Showcase and Electronic Literature Competition will be held Friday, May 3, 2024 from 10am-12pm. Details about the annual E-Lit Competition will be shared soon.