Medievalist, Instructor, Digital Teaching Fellow at USF
Scott Bevill While there is so much to like in Greenfield’s book, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that my favorite parts were the beginning vignette of a proximate future Paris and the final chapter which present five different potential futures based on Greenfield’s reading of technological changes in society (spelled out in each chapter as the … Read more
Optimism is radical? I recognize that it is deeply uncool to cite TIME at the beginning of this blog, but I’m hopeful that the Guillermo del Toro byline alleviates that a bit. In class the other night, I commented on my discomfort with the ending to Greenfield’s chapter on Automation, that I felt despair (rather … Read more
I’m behind on posting for this week, so I’ve got a couple in a row coming up. First up, I’d like to talk about one aspect of augmented reality that has been on my mind since last week. (This blog is currently doubling as my personal/professional space and as a site for posting about a grad … Read more
IN this week’s readings on the “Internet of Things,” I was fascinated by the implications of the structural assumptions necessary for a connected world. Adam Greenfield uses two specific examples–the first, involving RAND’s assessment of fire department allotments in NYC, drives home the real-world costs of assuming that data is gathered from and organized through a … Read more
So the blog portion of my site has been inactive for a while. Sorry about that. Since that last relaunch post about a year and a half ago, I spent a year as a postdoctoral lecturer at UTK, survived another job market season, and moved to Tampa for a three-year visiting instructor position at USF. … Read more
In the Summer after my interim year at HVA, I had the opportunity to sit down with my friend and colleague Brooke Bianchi-Pennington, who hosts a great educational podcast, LitBit. Brooke is finishing her Ph.D. in Literacy Studies, focusing on Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Brooke was my mentor teacher at HVA and did so … Read more
While finishing my Ph.D. and preparing for my first go-round on the academic job market, I returned to teaching high school on an interim basis. The switch was intense. The time demands for keeping up with a high school classroom are so different from the university setting: Less prep time. More grades. Fewer opportunities to … Read more
A video of talks by me and Katie Hodges-Kluck at the 2014 Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Graduate Fellows Evening. A wonderful event to share with a wonderful friend and colleague like Katie. Update 1/23/2019: UTK has archived this stream–I’ve sent in a request for an updated link, so I’ll be sure to … Read more
Quick Note: This review was originally published on the now archived blog, The Cohort@Marco. Along with Thomas Lecaque and Melissa Rack, I edited this academic blog for graduate students at UTK and elsewhere. We had a good run for a couple of years before folks started graduating and the blog stopped receiving regular updates. This review was one of my favorite pieces from the site, so I thought I’d archive it … Read more