This project is a little harder to describe. For one thing, I’m still technically part of the Viral Texts Project but my focus has shifted to the Virality of Racial Terror (link forthcoming)–a different part of the work and a different project in a lot of ways. I’ll report about that work in future posts….
In 2022, I had the pleasure of taking Dr. Zoe LeBlanc‘s Intro to DH course. The course required a final group project. My group–composed of Isabella Viega, Loida Pan, Fiona Hartley-Kroeger, and myself–chose to focus on corridos, the traditional Mexican narrative ballad. We wanted to investigate how corridos referenced places, and the places they were…
I’ve begun a little project of reorganizing my website; namely, my Academic Research page. It’s a good thing. It’s been spurred by the fact that I’ll have things to add over the course of the next few months. But more projects and articles and so forth mean the whole page could get cluttered! How many…
It’s been two weeks since Kristina and I exhibited at the 62nd annual Chicago Book & Paper Fair. It was a good fair this year. We met quite a few collectors. We also caught up with fellow booksellers–folks we’ve gotten to know over the years at fairs and through business dealings and through bookseller associations….
Newspaper Clipping of the Star Spangled Banner
Aug. 30, 1917 – Vashon Island Record