Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +
Very excited that my paper on data oriented approaches to understanding the importance of African poetry has been accepted! Years worth of work with GlobalPoetics.org culminating in ~8000 or so words. 👩🏿💻 Will *hopefully* be published in the winter/spring.
Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is in print! The paperback will be out in Feb. Please request that your library order a copy. 30% off with the discount code SNWF25. @sunypress.bsky.social @rcolesworthy.bsky.social
sunypress.edu/Books/A/Anim...
Available for preorder, Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style is out from Fordham on 7/1/25.
I analyze property law expansively, across Nigeria, India, South Africa, and the English Atlantic, to argue that both legal and literary innovations are undoing law's colonial legacies.
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I've extended the deadline & adjusted the wording on this scholarship after queries from prospective students.
Please encourage students interested in a funded PhD on poetry in either 18c/Romantic and/or settler colonialism & Indigenous sovereignty to get in touch!
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
This is also what annoys me about companies selling off articles and books to train AI. I can’t get access to that as a scholar without major fees paid by me or my library system. Why does AI get it?
The MLA-4C’s task force on Writing and AI has a new working paper out on “Building Cultures of Critical AI Literacy.” A lot of folks put a lot of work into this one: aiandwriting.hcommons.org/working-pape...
And something we say at the outset:
Actually, the true last update is I've picked up home gardening (growing tomatoes is so much fun!) and picked up Ghanaian baking again ( 🎵 I have butter bread, sugar bread, tea bread... all types of bread 🎵 early 2000s Ghanaian diasporan meme song. If you know, you know)
Last update, I'm on research leave for the year as I finish up THE BOOK. This is very exciting, and the book proposal is DONE and ready to be sent out in a month 🥳
My DH & media poetry lab, The Global Poetics Project, had an amazing summer. The summer fellows were a brilliant team to work with, and we worked on producing & analyzing network models that highlight some important questions about genre in African lit.
(img from the presentation to DH folks)
I forgot I had this account! Since I was last online, I've had two pieces published
1) new media poetry & race: www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/23...
2) a Cold War gathering of African, Black American, & Caribbean poets in West Berlin where they debated about poetry¬ions of Blackness: t.co/JJNhIQ3GKs
Back on my building a dataset grind
and am instantly reminded of how tedious data collection can be…
But when it’s analysis time 🤩
And when it’s visualization time 🥳🥳
✨CALLING ALL POETS!✨ The Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry is accepting manuscript submissions through February 15!
Hanif Abdurraqib will select one winning manuscript for publication by Sarabande Books.
Learn more and submit at the link in our bio!
I was in Philly walking around this weekend, and I saw so many unhoused people sleeping on top of steaming potholes. The weather was dipping into the 30s.
In a country where a J*ff Bez*s can exist, homelessness shouldn’t exist.
Starting in an hour! Join us!
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM EST
468 -Humanities without Borders
📍PCC - 203 (Grand Hall Level
#MLA2024
“Without words and images… we just won’t make it… it’s the future of the species to which we belong.”
- W.J.T. Mitchell, #MLA2024 Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award speech
Also, please feel free to say hi! I'd love to catch up with (and meet) folks, chat, grab lunch, explore the city, etc. 😊
Want to talk about developing community-driven initiatives and projects, cross-institutional incubators and labs, or public-facing publications and exhibitions?
📚✨ If so, come to our #MLA2024 roundtable plenary session, Humanities Without Borders!
One of the most frustrating narratives links humanities majors w poor employment prospects and outcomes. “The data really does say otherwise.” I wrote abt the new & important Humanities Indicators state level report for @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social 🗃️ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/12/14/h...
How are we teaching about and/or with AI now?
The MLA/NCTE CCCC Task Force on Writing and AI's "Exploring AI Pedagogy: A Community Collection of Teaching Reflections" is a collegial space to browse, comment, and share what you're trying and how it's going!
exploringaipedagogy.hcommons.org
“We’re down to 35k…” is a struggle ?!?!😭😭😭
A sudden cash inflow of 35k would actually change my life 😭
Flyer that reads: "We are looking for an AIAI Postdoctoral Fellow," accompanied by a picture of clouds, set against a pink background.
Big news over here in the #AIAINetwork: we're hiring a 2-year postdoc! If you work at the intersection of AI and the humanities, and would be happily housed in the
Emory English department, then this job is for you! Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/136528
Group of books on the floor
Thinking. Writing. Reading.
These books are my thinking companions for the evening and 🌙
Such delicious leftovers! 😂
As an exercise, look at your stack of books / folder of downloaded PDFs & try to name the processes that made those sources available to you. You are not a lone scholar! Reframe that as a net good and make that labor visible. Critical archival studies + critical data studies + media literacy.
The Call for Papers and Submissions for archipelagos journal is out!! ✨
It's so wonderful to see a call for a full issue dedicated to scholarship on Papiamentu/o and the Dutch Caribbean. This is a much needed critical intervention.
The deadline is Dec 15 ❗
My department is hiring! We are looking scholars interested in the creative and critical application of computing in cultural heritage -- e.g. digital humanities, museum informatics, digital curation, more. PLEASE SHARE!
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Last year I passed around jollof and plantain, so not as cool, but still tasty 😋
End of semester sugar to push us through final presentations.
Such great work in all my classes. 💫
Thanks to Pharaoh’s donuts 🍩
