Shakespeare in a Mug Teaching Activity
For my first time helping to teach an introductory-level Shakespeare course, I found a good icebreaker activity from Stefanie Jochman on the Teaching Shakespeare Folger Education blog. It’s called Shakespeare …
Blog
Notes from Women’s Studies Association NZ Conference 2016
The following are my notes from the sessions I attended at the Women’s Studies Association (NZ) Pae Akoranga Wāhine Conference on September 1-2, 2016, at the University of Auckland, New …
Notes from aaDH Digital Humanities Australasia Conference 2016
Notes from aaDH Digital Humanities Australasia Conference June 20-23, 2016 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Conference abstracts PDF Twitter #DHA2016 The following are my notes from the Digital Humanities Australasia conference (June …
Embedding Employability into University Courses
Teaching Week session on “Embedding Employability in Our Classes” University of Canterbury June 9, 2016 This session was an enlightening experience, with four employers invited to share what they were …
Epic World-Building in Dune Article Published!
I am very excited to announce that my article on Frank Herbert’s Dune entitled “Epic World-Building: Names and Cultures in Dune” has been published in Names: A Journal of Onomastics! The post-print PDF …
Innovative Pedagogies by Professor Peggy Ertmer
Increasing Teachers’ Capacity for Innovative Learning Pedagogies By Professor Peggy A. Ertmer, Learning Design and Technology (Purdue University Professor Peggy A. Ertmer gave a prestige lecture on April 27, 2016, …
Thriving as an Academic seminar
“Thriving as an Academic” Seminar By Professor William H. Starbuck (Visiting Erskine Fellow) and Emeritus Professor Bob Hamilton Admittedly, I was skeptical about how much value I could obtain from …
Notes from Gender Equality and Feminist New Practice in EU and Global Discourse
Resistance, Backlash and Power: Gender Equality and Feminist New Practice in EU and Global Discourse International Symposium European Union Centre Network NZ (EUCN NZ) National Centre for Research on Europe …
Medieval and Early Modern Digital Humanities Seminar
This Medieval and Early Modern Digital Humanities Seminar (officially called a Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar, or PATS) was put on by the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and …
Trans/forming Feminisms: Media, Technology, Identity Conference notes
The Trans/forming Feminisms: Media, Technology, Identity Conference was held at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, on November 23-25, 2015. Twitter IDs were @transfem15 and #tf15. There was a large …