Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Director of Digital Humanities, Michigan State University

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A bit belatedly, a post mostly serving to bookmark for myself Scott McLemee’s IHE column growing out of the MLA blogging panel, with a very interesting conversation (both in the column and in the comments) about gender, academic blogging, stardom, and anonymity.

I’ve been working up a storm, and the big blogging project I’ve mentioned several times is actually beginning to take some shape. I’ll hope to post some bits from it for discussion as they become available.

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