Hi, I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Performance Studies. I am currently working on a project about performance practices and politics in the Americas. This project has a hemispheric focus and I am developing it on a platform called “Scalar.” I am interested on how the digital humanities and new technologies of networked scholarship and culture allow us to go back to issues about live, embodied culture and archives, how to interrelate different epistemic systems such as written, oral and now the digital. In what ways can the semantic web help us to demonstrate a conceptualization of the Americas as a terrain of interrelated performance practices. So, my take on the digital humanities is around questions of performativity, memory, and event, as well as explorations on new forms of scholarship alongside archives. Looking forward to our conversation tomorrow!
I’m excited to hear more about your work and your experience with Scalar. Lots of great questions arise from that platform, the major one being the idea of authorship and whether or not multimodal publications can still retain authorial direction or does the audience control the reading experience in ways linear narrative never allowed. All arguable points, and I’d be curious to hear your thoughts as someone actually authoring in Scalar.