About me
Since 1985, I've taught at SUNY Geneseo, where I served as interim provost in 2016-17 and chair of the English department from 2010 to 2015. I'm currently Professor of English and Director of the Center for Digital Learning at Geneseo. I teach courses in Victorian Literature, Humanities, and Digital Humanities.
Ongoing projects and recent publications
- Digital Thoreau, a web resource dedicated to helping readers approach the works of American author Henry David Thoreau the same way he tried to live life: deliberately. At Digital Thoreau, you can read a fluid-text edition of Walden that enables you to follow Thoreau's revisions to the work across seven manuscript versions; join a community of readers in a social network for annotating Thoreau's works collaboratively, and learn about the life and work of Thoreau scholar and SUNY Geneseo Distinguished Professor of English Walter Harding.
- Critical Digital Practices, a self-paced course/instructional resource designed to introduce some fundamental skills and concepts in computing while putting these in critical perspective.
- English @ SUNY Geneseo, a learning and shared-interest network built with Commons In a Box, a free plugin for the open-source blogging platform WordPress created and maintained by City University of New York and CUNY Graduate Center.
- "Encountering Walden" in Scholarly Editing Vol. 39 (co-author).
- Annotation, in Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments, a book project of the Modern Language Association.
Assorted open courses
- Spring 2024: Literature and Literary Study in the Digital Age
- Fall 2019: Victorian Connexions
- Fall 2018: Reader and Text: Fluid Readers, Fluid Texts
- Fall 2017: Into the Woods: Experiments in Community, Sustainability, and the Examined Life (with Debra Schleef, University of Mary Washington)
- Spring 2016: Western Humanities II
- Fall 2014: Major Authors: Charles Dickens
Blogging
My blogstuff is scattered in various spaces, including the Center for Digital Learning blog and group blogs within the English @ SUNY Geneseo network such as Reader and Text, Digital Humanities at Geneseo and Metagogy.
Twitter/Mastodon
Find me at:
- @WhatTheDickens (less and less)
- @WhatTheDickens@mastodon.online (more and more)
- @DigitalThoreau
- @DigitalThoreau@hcommons.social