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I was honored to give the keynote address at Carleton College’s 10th Annual Day of DH, a one-day event that draws together digital humanities professionals from the broader Minneapolis/St.

Subcutanean (2020) is a queer coming-of-age novel by Aaron Reed.

Unless you spend most of your time self-promoting, it’s difficult to get word out about your successes, not to mention your interesting failures.

In January 2025 I presented on a panel called “Alt-Text, Alt-Image: Multimodal Scholarship” at the annual Modern Language Association conference.

At the 2025 Electronic Literature Organization conference in Toronto I participated on a panel devoted to If/Then, a computational poetics group/workshop/collective/community that has been meeting monthly over Zoom since Fall 2020.

In February 2024 I delivered the keynote address at the DHU8 symposium, the eighth annual digital humanities conference sponsored by seven of Utah’s largest universities.

On Thursday, January 5, I participated on a round table at the 2023 MLA convention, organized by the MLA itself.

My last development diary entry looked at the origins of Babyface, my submission to the 2020 Interactive Fiction competition (IFComp).

Babyface coverart So, Babyface is a thing I made.

In my previous post I listed all the digital creative/critical works I’ve released in the past 12 months.

The Infinite Catalog of Crushed Dreams (April 2020) When you’re a college professor, you follow a different calendar from the rest of the grown-up world.

It’s not that I want to be angry, or despairing, but when I see this email in my inbox, on top of the daily hourly whalloping I get from the news and friends and family on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, I can’t help be angry, and despair: He…

In early January I joined a group of AI researchers from Microsoft and my fellow humanist Kathleen Fitzpatrick to talk at the Modern Language Association convention about the implications of artificial intelligence.

Over the weekend I launched Ring Log, which is simultaneously a critique of surveillance culture and a parody of machine vision in suburbia.

I don’t want to get into everything that’s broken with Twitter and has been for a long time.