Remixing The Humanities

In this second part of our series on precarity, to what extent is the digitization of education increasing or augmenting precarity? Is the digital classroom fixing precarity, or somehow making it worse?Please remember to like, share, rate and subscribe! Check us out on Twitter at @humanitiesremix and on Facebook at the same handle.

What does it mean to be “precarious?” Is it political, economic, or ontological? Geoff, Devori, and Michael have a spirited discussion as they try to define “precarity” as it relates to the current state of the world and academia. How does precarity impact academics? What do precarity its underpinning ideologies cost academia in the long run?

We're back with a new format on Remixing the Humanities! Listen as we discuss how we define "remixing" and why it's important to our goal as podcasters/educators. Also, we cover some new information for our upcoming series on precarity.As always, be sure to like, share, rate, and subscribe! Look for us on Twitter and Facebook!

In this final minisode from SAA in March of 2018, we talk to Shawn Moore of Florida Southwestern State College about the Digital Cavendish Project, curation of digital humanities, and what it means to work with Cavendish's texts. You can find more information by following the DCP on Twitter @digicavendish, or visiting the website at http://digitalcavendish.org/. Please like, share, rate, and subscribe. You can follow us on Twitter @humanitiesremix, on Facebook at the same name, or e-mail us at humanitiesremix@gmail.com.

We've got another noisy, vibrant minisode for you this week from SAA in LA. In this episode, Geoff, Michael, and Devori talk with Paddy Fulmerton and Carl Stahmer of the English Broadside Ballad Initiative about why mass-produced fare from the early modern period gets the least scholarly attention. Also, Michael wants to make broadside ballad karaoke a thing.For more information, you can visit the website at ebba.english.ucsb.edu and see for yourself why this fascinating project has won seven two-year NEH grants! Please like, share, rate, subscribe - we're at @humanitiesremix on Twitter, on Facebook, and you can e-mail us with queries at humanitiesremix@gmail.com.

In this interview from the Digital Exhibits at SAA 2018, Michael and Geoff talk to Jonathan Burton of Whittier College about how he uses social media to help his students grapple with close reading of Shakespearean texts. To find out more about the software Jonathan uses for video annotation, go to https://ant.umn.edu.As always, like, share, rate, and subscribe! Follow us on FB, on Twitter at @humanitiesremix, or reach out to us via email at humanitiesremix@gmail.com.

In this minisode, we have a bonus interview with Laura Estill of Texas A&M talking about her work with the World Shakespeare Bibliography. For more information, you can reach out to Dr. Estill on Twitter at @Laura_Estill, as well as at www.worldshakesbib.org. You can also check out Dr. Estill's 2014 article on the project in Scholarly Research and Communication here: http://src-online.ca/index.php/src/article/view/187.Be sure to like, share, rate, and subscribe! Follow us on Facebook, or on Twitter at @humanitiesremix. You can also email us at humanitiesremix@gmail.com.

Here's the second interview from the Digital Exhibits hall at Shakespeare Association of America early this month. Whitney Trettien of the University of Pennsylvania talks to Michael, Devori, and Geoff about her work with digital humanities, and the way that we collaborate and make our work accessible to the public. As always, please like, share, rate, and subscribe.

In this episode, Geoff, Michael, and Devori sit down with Stonehill College's Kristen Bennett and talk about The Kit Marlowe Project - an interactive project she started to get her students invested in research about the early modern figure. How did she start the project, and how does she keep it up and running? What are the perks and perils of operating outside of the paywall? Please be sure to check this exciting work out at www.kitmarlowe.org, and feel free to contact Kristen at kbennett@stonehill.edu!As always - be sure to like, share, rate, and subscribe!

We talk with Ayanna Thompson about the future of SAA!

After our discussion of the role of Shakespeare in the academy from a scholarly angle, what do we make of his place in the classroom? Geoff, Michael, and Devori discuss the role Shakespeare plays in teaching, both in Shakespeare/early modern classes, and in others? How do we “use” Shakespeare as a tool? To what extent does the teaching of Shakespeare provide job security? What can/should we learn from the Shakespearean model of education? For those of us who teach Shakespeare AND composition, what can each learn from the other?

Your fearless PhDs are back with another installment, this time exploring the relationship of Shakespeare to the current state of the humanities. Is he a pillar of the language and the field that must be protected at all costs, or are we due for a little iconoclasm? How necessary is studying the Bard of Avon to those pursuing an English Renaissance degree? To what extent is the "Shakespeare" we know and love rooted to the idea of the text, or how much of him is embedded in performance and timeliness? In short - do we have to make our peace with Shakespeare to save the humanities? Please find us on Facebook and Twitter, and like, share, rate, and subscribe!

It's our second super-sized episode! In this discussion, Geoff, Michael, and Devori take on the state of the humanities in our nation's HE institutions. Is there a crisis in the humanities, and does it look like we think it does? Why does the commodification of education seem to strike the humanities particularly hard? Are digital humanities the saviors we’re all waiting for – either financially or ideologically? How do technology and the humanities mix – is it another skill-set we need to teach? What essential roles do humanities classes play in today’s increasingly noisy world? Are we in the humanities uniquely poised to teach certain critical lessons to college students?Please like, share, rate, subscribe!

Join our new podcast as we discuss the intricacies of working in the humanities in an ever-changing academic culture. How does the university view "the humanities?" What is the role of a humanities instructor in the business-ified world of higher education? Please follow us on Twitter at @humanitiesremix, and for further conversation join us on Facebook at Remix the Humanities. Please like, share, rate, and subscribe!