STEM Ed+ Commons | Shawna Ross | Activity https://stemedplus.hcommons.org/members/shawnaross/activity/ Activity feed for Shawna Ross. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:39:36 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 58da3414739d0ec665d9eb3a651681a1 Shawna Ross started the topic CFP - A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-a-field-guide-to-lost-modernisms/ Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:03:35 +0000 A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms
Call for papers

The Internet is a significant yet leaky infrastructure by which modernism circulates. Members of the public often encounter modernist literature and culture online, while students and scholars depend on the World Wide Web for conducting and disseminating their research. Worryingly, Internet assets…[Read more]

]]> 1c6b5bec3b93fdf7b6cbb0c9c4ecf31a Shawna Ross started the topic CFP - A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms in the forum Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanists/forum/topic/cfp-a-field-guide-to-lost-modernisms/ Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:00:14 +0000 A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms
Call for papers

The Internet is a significant yet leaky infrastructure by which modernism circulates. Members of the public often encounter modernist literature and culture online, while students and scholars depend on the World Wide Web for conducting and disseminating their research. Worryingly, Internet assets…[Read more]

]]> 85030a7d85b3030744240135dd261eca Shawna Ross deposited Labour, Alienation, and the Digital Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1826228/ Tue, 13 Dec 2022 16:14:57 +0000 This chapter challenges core assumptions about the digital humanities by centering labour—including salaried work, as well as work remunerated through institutional credit (such as a degree or further employment)—as the core element of computing, and by extension, the digital humanities. We identify a division between creative and rote labor cen…[Read more]

]]> 0 09fd991fc3e1c4fed88c73705d5921e8 Shawna Ross deposited Virginia Woolf and the Intellectual Life: A Graduate Syllabus in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1825764/ Fri, 09 Dec 2022 02:26:36 +0000 Virginia Woolf is already recognized today as a major player in the Bloomsbury Group, an intellectual powerhouse that influenced modern philosophy, politics, economics, aesthetics, biography, and literary criticism. Yet Woolf’s reputation as a fiction writer first and foremost has distracted critical attention from her thorough interrogation of w…[Read more]

]]> 0 bfd7a3dc2bba9262556e8fc97d6aa5fa Shawna Ross deposited Virginia Woolf and the Intellectual Life: A Graduate Syllabus in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1825763/ Fri, 09 Dec 2022 02:23:38 +0000 Virginia Woolf is already recognized today as a major player in the Bloomsbury Group, an intellectual powerhouse that influenced modern philosophy, politics, economics, aesthetics, biography, and literary criticism. Yet Woolf’s reputation as a fiction writer first and foremost has distracted critical attention from her thorough interrogation of w…[Read more]

]]> 0 f5a9154376ee10c3c826e556e18a8fac Shawna Ross deposited Virginia Woolf and the Intellectual Life: A Graduate Syllabus https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1825634/ Thu, 08 Dec 2022 14:22:44 +0000 Virginia Woolf is already recognized today as a major player in the Bloomsbury Group, an intellectual powerhouse that influenced modern philosophy, politics, economics, aesthetics, biography, and literary criticism. Yet Woolf’s reputation as a fiction writer first and foremost has distracted critical attention from her thorough interrogation of w…[Read more]

]]> 0 d75c4326db527045961425dddc8dafd7 Shawna Ross deposited A Beginner’s Guide to Using Voyant for Digital Theme Analysis in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1821421/ Fri, 11 Nov 2022 02:27:16 +0000 “Digital Theme Analysis” depicts the role that thematic analysis plays in literary criticism, places traditional thematic analysis approaches alongside digital ones, and offers best practices for carrying out digital thematic analysis in the context of Voyant Tools. The chapter identifies thematic analysis as a meaningful pattern that can be tra…[Read more]

]]> 0 d8ed92e42a58b1581ea181c11fb5f265 Shawna Ross deposited A Beginner’s Guide to Using Voyant for Digital Theme Analysis in the group Connected Academics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1821420/ Fri, 11 Nov 2022 02:27:08 +0000 “Digital Theme Analysis” depicts the role that thematic analysis plays in literary criticism, places traditional thematic analysis approaches alongside digital ones, and offers best practices for carrying out digital thematic analysis in the context of Voyant Tools. The chapter identifies thematic analysis as a meaningful pattern that can be tra…[Read more]

]]> 0 7513183d4ee311789ebd0b55c730e6fc Shawna Ross deposited A Beginner’s Guide to Using Voyant for Digital Theme Analysis in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1821419/ Fri, 11 Nov 2022 02:25:42 +0000 “Digital Theme Analysis” depicts the role that thematic analysis plays in literary criticism, places traditional thematic analysis approaches alongside digital ones, and offers best practices for carrying out digital thematic analysis in the context of Voyant Tools. The chapter identifies thematic analysis as a meaningful pattern that can be tra…[Read more]

]]> 0 1750050e0ffd57e0072717a91bbe0750 Shawna Ross deposited A Beginner’s Guide to Using Voyant for Digital Theme Analysis https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1821237/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 16:19:30 +0000 “Digital Theme Analysis” depicts the role that thematic analysis plays in literary criticism, places traditional thematic analysis approaches alongside digital ones, and offers best practices for carrying out digital thematic analysis in the context of Voyant Tools. The chapter identifies thematic analysis as a meaningful pattern that can be tra…[Read more]

]]> 0 15ca6ec21f82a2a3ddc8ef1b3331143a Shawna Ross's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1623845/ Thu, 15 Nov 2018 21:25:12 +0000 0 58ceb28bc21724ba8d908075fc65e947 Shawna Ross started the topic Spreadsheet of Modernist DH Scholars in the discussion ModDH Collaboratory https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/moddh-collaboratory/forum/topic/spreadsheet-of-modernist-dh-scholars/ Tue, 06 Nov 2018 22:03:29 +0000 One way to make sure that you can find modernist DH scholars and they can find you is to add your name to the Modernist DH Scholar spreadsheet! Adding your email address is optional, of course.

]]> baba918a1b88b94ba0c6ef66e4c2360d Shawna Ross created the event ModDH Collab Workshop in the group ModDH Collaboratory. https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1623070/ Tue, 06 Nov 2018 21:35:19 +0000 0 13f51869860fa349ff4a9ad28c8ab762 Shawna Ross created the group ModDH Collaboratory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1623069/ Tue, 06 Nov 2018 21:27:48 +0000 0 b94f3e921667995880907dd98d88db15 Shawna Ross deposited This is Just to Say I Have the in your : Modernist Memes in an Era of Public Apology in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1609583/ Thu, 31 May 2018 03:48:52 +0000 The final two months of 2017 witnessed a renaissance of an always-popular meme on Metafilter, Twitter: parodies of William Carlos Williams’s 1934 poem, “This Is Just to Say.” Parodies typically replace nouns and adjectives in this twelve-line, three-stanza Imagist poem. A minimum of six replacements yields an entirely new poem, such that users…[Read more]

]]> 0 a45044c25b4039aac64da9ea4e902fae Shawna Ross deposited This is Just to Say I Have the in your : Modernist Memes in an Era of Public Apology in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1609582/ Thu, 31 May 2018 03:48:43 +0000 The final two months of 2017 witnessed a renaissance of an always-popular meme on Metafilter, Twitter: parodies of William Carlos Williams’s 1934 poem, “This Is Just to Say.” Parodies typically replace nouns and adjectives in this twelve-line, three-stanza Imagist poem. A minimum of six replacements yields an entirely new poem, such that users…[Read more]

]]> 0 c0344a3067d45a91c7c631482fc139bc Shawna Ross deposited This is Just to Say I Have the in your : Modernist Memes in an Era of Public Apology https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1609570/ Wed, 30 May 2018 23:28:01 +0000 The final two months of 2017 witnessed a renaissance of an always-popular meme on Metafilter, Twitter: parodies of William Carlos Williams’s 1934 poem, “This Is Just to Say.” Parodies typically replace nouns and adjectives in this twelve-line, three-stanza Imagist poem. A minimum of six replacements yields an entirely new poem, such that users…[Read more]

]]> 0 470cd74f615f834237fb4dc5ee48cb6d Shawna Ross deposited Transatlantic Modernist Poetry (Graduate Syllabus) in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1597301/ Tue, 16 Jan 2018 03:53:42 +0000 This course, taught at Texas A&M University in Spring 2018, reads the entirety of the Norton anthology and enfolds readings of the Modernist Journals Project and scholarship by Morrisson, Esty, McKible and Churchill, Patterson, Ramazani, Jay, Berman, Chlak, Friedman, and Kalliney.

]]> 0 e0be92c541335c71c06c017b06c64625 Shawna Ross deposited Transatlantic Modernist Poetry (Graduate Syllabus) in the group Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1597300/ Tue, 16 Jan 2018 03:48:44 +0000 This course, taught at Texas A&M University in Spring 2018, reads the entirety of the Norton anthology and enfolds readings of the Modernist Journals Project and scholarship by Morrisson, Esty, McKible and Churchill, Patterson, Ramazani, Jay, Berman, Chlak, Friedman, and Kalliney.

]]> 0 59747e28527e8897b17cb9624f16733f Shawna Ross deposited Manifesto of Modernist Digital Humanities in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1596912/ Sun, 14 Jan 2018 03:59:49 +0000 The Manifesto of Modern Digital Humanities is an avant-garde statement regarding digital methodologies used by scholars of modernist literature and culture. Its experimental format uses handwritten HTML to mimic the typographical qualities of modernist literary manifestoes.

]]> 0 400f1a8b253d94532cde2f09853db7a3 Shawna Ross deposited Manifesto of Modernist Digital Humanities in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1596910/ Sun, 14 Jan 2018 03:53:18 +0000 The Manifesto of Modern Digital Humanities is an avant-garde statement regarding digital methodologies used by scholars of modernist literature and culture. Its experimental format uses handwritten HTML to mimic the typographical qualities of modernist literary manifestoes.

]]> 0 a0076fd284421cbffb866f2e6fe392ec Shawna Ross deposited Manifesto of Modernist Digital Humanities in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1596909/ Sun, 14 Jan 2018 03:48:50 +0000 The Manifesto of Modern Digital Humanities is an avant-garde statement regarding digital methodologies used by scholars of modernist literature and culture. Its experimental format uses handwritten HTML to mimic the typographical qualities of modernist literary manifestoes.

]]> 0 a33c118205ff3e21cc5ea99806e36c14 Shawna Ross deposited Manifesto of Modernist Digital Humanities in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596908/ Sun, 14 Jan 2018 03:48:43 +0000 The Manifesto of Modern Digital Humanities is an avant-garde statement regarding digital methodologies used by scholars of modernist literature and culture. Its experimental format uses handwritten HTML to mimic the typographical qualities of modernist literary manifestoes.

]]> 0 50f28256786d7e47964c97178a92144b Shawna Ross deposited Transatlantic Modernist Poetry (Graduate Syllabus) https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1596887/ Sat, 13 Jan 2018 21:56:11 +0000 This course, taught at Texas A&M University in Spring 2018, reads the entirety of the Norton anthology and enfolds readings of the Modernist Journals Project and scholarship by Morrisson, Esty, McKible and Churchill, Patterson, Ramazani, Jay, Berman, Chlak, Friedman, and Kalliney.

]]> 0 1eba29c4f409c5c0ece34854ef6982ea Shawna Ross deposited Manifesto of Modernist Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1596604/ Fri, 12 Jan 2018 15:47:45 +0000 The Manifesto of Modern Digital Humanities is an avant-garde statement regarding digital methodologies used by scholars of modernist literature and culture. Its experimental format uses handwritten HTML to mimic the typographical qualities of modernist literary manifestoes.

]]> 0 54c5c184e93162d9e897e606ef614eb4 Shawna Ross deposited The (Meme) Master: James’s Afterlives in Viral Satire in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1588112/ Sun, 12 Nov 2017 18:26:54 +0000 This article investigates Henry James’s digital afterlives by analyzing popular James-themed images and articles that have been shared on the Internet since 2000. Adapting Richard Dawkins’s theory of virality and Michael Anesko’s concept of James’s cultural capital, this article engages with viral content published on websites such as Bustle,…[Read more]

]]> 0 48bf89123d29048ed1fcafa56d31c702 Shawna Ross deposited The (Meme) Master: James’s Afterlives in Viral Satire in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1588111/ Sun, 12 Nov 2017 18:26:50 +0000 This article investigates Henry James’s digital afterlives by analyzing popular James-themed images and articles that have been shared on the Internet since 2000. Adapting Richard Dawkins’s theory of virality and Michael Anesko’s concept of James’s cultural capital, this article engages with viral content published on websites such as Bustle,…[Read more]

]]> 0 22e77e4ee3801a2f5a28effb0926b90d Shawna Ross deposited The (Meme) Master: James’s Afterlives in Viral Satire https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1586806/ Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:56:33 +0000 This article investigates Henry James’s digital afterlives by analyzing popular James-themed images and articles that have been shared on the Internet since 2000. Adapting Richard Dawkins’s theory of virality and Michael Anesko’s concept of James’s cultural capital, this article engages with viral content published on websites such as Bustle,…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc73dca7c1b5e7dd1a0a8172423b8b69 Shawna Ross deposited Hashtags, Algorithmic Compression, and Henry James’s Late Style https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1586284/ Wed, 01 Nov 2017 18:07:47 +0000 This essay draws parallels between the intellectual labor of the Jamesian narrator and that of social media user, both of whom use similar techniques to arrange and interpret data streams (consciousness, expression, dialogue, action, text). I argue that James’s social politics of conversation is not only suited to making digital interlocutors c…[Read more]

]]> 0 590d794b3e3e0f4b7105421d64288076 Shawna Ross posted an update: @lyoung Here is the WebAIM "Wave Accessibility Tool" I […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1585117/ Fri, 20 Oct 2017 14:07:54 +0000 @lyoung Here is the WebAIM "Wave Accessibility Tool" I mentioned earlier. You can set it as a plugin for your browser, or you can simply submit the URL here: http://wave.webaim.org/

]]> 0 8e2074106db7047a6d00514ea4e4ce4d Shawna Ross deposited Oceanic Studies Syllabus https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1554136/ Fri, 02 Dec 2016 20:56:06 +0000 This course will introduce you to the new humanist field of oceanic studies, which foregrounds the history of ocean travel and epistemologies over the humanities’ implicit yet traditional and ingrained focus on the nation-state. You will be introduced to these theories by reading literature and viewing films related to one particular topic w…[Read more]

]]> 0 0d33059268400f05d299788efdd58103 Shawna Ross deposited Sherlock Holmes, Canon and Curiosities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1554135/ Fri, 02 Dec 2016 20:53:22 +0000 By the end of this course, you will have encountered Sherlock in just about as many media and textual forms as the great detective has disguises: novels, short stories, illustrated serials in The Strand, plays, poems, essays, parodies, TV episodes, silent films, Hollywood films, comic books, and fan fiction. Each unit will require you to complete…[Read more]

]]> 0 0c2ccaccf84c441bc9941c66551e0f71 Shawna Ross deposited “You cannot go further in life than this sentence by James": Deleuze, Guattari, James. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554032/ Fri, 02 Dec 2016 15:18:21 +0000 Twenty-first century scholarship on Henry James presents an author in line with Deleuze's characterization of the writer in Dialogues II: that a writer should create “a flux which combines with other fluxes – all the minority-becomings of the world... through which life escapes from the resentment of persons, societies, and reigns,” but what I wou…[Read more]

]]> 0 2eea91b5d330ca5fb1c47c43178ec9be Shawna Ross deposited Agatha Christie's Impossible Vacation https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554031/ Fri, 02 Dec 2016 15:11:16 +0000 To explore why many of Christie’s crimes occur in leisure spaces (from golf courses and hunting lodges to palace hotels, seaside resorts, and cruise ships), I want to focus on a few of Christie’s interwar Poirot novels, namely, The Murder on the Links (1923), Peril at End House (1932), Murder on the Orient Express (1934), and Death on the Nile (19…[Read more]

]]> 0 b30095d087be9da19ee6aaf48be6fbb5 Shawna Ross deposited The (Meme) Master: Henry James's Digital Afterlives https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554030/ Fri, 02 Dec 2016 15:06:50 +0000 This article investigates Henry James’s digital afterlives by analyzing popular James-themed images and articles that have been shared on the Internet since 2000. Adapting Richard Dawkins’s theory of virality and Michael Anesko’s concept of James’s cultural capital, this article engages with viral content published on websites such as Bustle,…[Read more]

]]> 0 383f0e42ae7460d8c6d65f3032f5332e Shawna Ross deposited Remembering William Carlos Williams’s "The Use of Force": Anti-Vaxxers, Medical Ethics, and Short Story Syllabi. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554028/ Fri, 02 Dec 2016 15:02:34 +0000 I argue that Williams’s doctor stories must be remembered on our syllabi due to contemporary discursive trends in medical ethics. Treating “The Use of Force” as a case study, I create parallels between its representation of resistance to diphtheria anti-toxin and the rhetoric of “anti-vaxxers” like Jenny McCarthy, Andrew Wakefield, Michelle…[Read more]

]]> 0 d19bc451190319714f39151a6585bbf7 Shawna Ross changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554021/ Fri, 02 Dec 2016 14:34:04 +0000 0 be0998a76f515147b4061b6e89c66b6b Shawna Ross wrote a new post, MLA 2017 Convention Panel: Histories of Digital Labor, on the site Notes from the CIT https://infotech.mla.hcommons.org/?p=287 Mon, 17 Oct 2016 14:05:54 +0000 MLA2017, Session 649
Saturday, 7 January
5:15–6:30 p.m., Franklin 5, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding: Shawna Ross, Texas A&M Univ., College Station
As labor-intensive projects continue to dominate the f […]

]]> f3d652990d275342364c443a7a64ab76 Shawna Ross wrote a new post, Demonstrating the Scholarship of Twitter, on the site Notes from the CIT https://infotech.mla.hcommons.org/?p=261 Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:55:53 +0000 Introduction

This post is the third installment of CIT’s new blog series, “Demonstrating the Scholarship of…,” in which we provide arguments and strategies for individual scholars to link their own particu […]

]]> d001a873c6759c56f36d6e7730f3d8c5 Shawna Ross wrote a new post, Demonstrating the Scholarship of Encoding, on the site Notes from the CIT https://infotech.mla.hcommons.org/?p=245 Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:14:05 +0000  

Introduction

This post is the second installment of CIT’s new blog series, “Demonstrating the Scholarship of…,” in which we provide arguments and strategies for individual scholars to link their own part […]

]]> c9141bfb7269bcaca6a3c763c0562334 Shawna Ross wrote a new post, Demonstrating the Scholarship of Pedagogy, on the site Notes from the CIT https://infotech.mla.hcommons.org/?p=240 Mon, 15 Feb 2016 16:35:36 +0000  

Introduction

This post is the first installment of CIT’s new blog series, “Demonstrating the Scholarship of…,” in which we provide arguments and strategies for individual scholars to link their own part […]

]]> 0f5500b001e1a621c05d1b6c3aaea804 Shawna Ross wrote a new post, CFP for MLA 2017: Histories of Digital Labor, on the site Notes from the CIT https://infotech.mla.hcommons.org/?p=237 Thu, 28 Jan 2016 23:19:27 +0000 The MLA Committee on Information Technology invites abstracts on the history of digital labor for a guaranteed panel at the MLA conference in Philadelphia from January 5-8, 2017.

As labor-intensive projects […]

]]> 2d7e9b9ef5c8bd844eebf345eba6ec87 Shawna Ross wrote a new post, Demonstrating the Scholarship of: A New Blog Series from the CIT, on the site Notes from the CIT https://infotech.mla.hcommons.org/?p=200 Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:38:40 +0000 Much virtual ink has been spilt about the need for standards for the evaluation of digital scholarship in the humanities. Case studies have been studied, organizational proclamations ratified; journal articles […]

]]> 8455c1e31d2fe69fc5ee916af214cc91 Shawna Ross changed their profile picture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/16152/ Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:39:32 +0000 0