DH in CAS Event Today!

 DH in CAS will hold the first RIG of  the season on Thursday, January 26, from 3:30-5:00 in The Oregon Humanities Center (159 PLC). Coffee and light refreshments will be served.

Parker Smith, Carmel Ohman, and Dina Muhić, all PhD candidates in the English department, will share their innovative and exciting projects.

Parker Smith is a PhD student studying American literature. In his talk, “Entertainment by Immersion: Towards a Spatial Conception of YouTube Temporality,” he works to make sense of the enormous amounts of data hosted by websites like YouTube by summoning the mass of electronic devices this data implies.

Carmel Ohman is a PhD student whose interests lie at the intersection of 20th C. American literature, ecocriticism, and race and ethnic studies. Her talk “OKCollaborate: Out-Of-This-World. Interdisciplinary. Fun!” is a mobile app that facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration through a fun visual and textual interface.

Dina Muhić is a doctoral candidate at the University of Oregon, specializing in film, television, and new media studies. Her project “Trauma and Queerness in Popular Culture: Performing Critical Closeness through Digital Form,” is rooted in the longstanding notion that form and content are inextricably linked, and posits digital spaces as a potentially revolutionary site for liberating academic scholarship from the normative, linear format of the printed word.