Monica Wolfe
@monicawolfe.bsky.social
Informatics eLearning Specialist
Purdue PhD Candidate in lit/DH
Purdue PhD Candidate in lit/DH
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Monica Wolfe
@monicawolfe.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Intro post for new bsky pals: I research American lit/film/new media using computational text analysis + poco and fem/queer theory. Currently working on a digital critical anthology of modernist works by marginalized creators. Owner of a geriatric Great Dane mix and the world’s friendliest cat.
I took a leave of absence from my PhD during my final year to accept a non-ac job offer and move across the country. It’s the best decision I’ve ever made. The support, respect, compensation, and opportunities in this role go so far beyond what was available in the ac roles I was interviewing for.
January 27, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I took a leave of absence from my PhD during my final year to accept a non-ac job offer and move across the country. It’s the best decision I’ve ever made. The support, respect, compensation, and opportunities in this role go so far beyond what was available in the ac roles I was interviewing for.
I’ve been applying and interviewing for both academic and non-ac industry jobs. Salaries are obviously much higher on the non-ac side. Folks who decided to stay in academia, what convinced you to stay? Folks who have left academia, do you have any regrets?
December 23, 2024 at 7:30 PM
I’ve been applying and interviewing for both academic and non-ac industry jobs. Salaries are obviously much higher on the non-ac side. Folks who decided to stay in academia, what convinced you to stay? Folks who have left academia, do you have any regrets?
“…we demand that NYU leadership immediately drop charges against faculty arrested by the NYPD, withdraw sanctions against those they have designated PNG, and stop persecuting students, faculty and staff who raise their voices against the historic crimes now ongoing in Palestine.”
December 19, 2024 at 3:16 AM
“…we demand that NYU leadership immediately drop charges against faculty arrested by the NYPD, withdraw sanctions against those they have designated PNG, and stop persecuting students, faculty and staff who raise their voices against the historic crimes now ongoing in Palestine.”
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The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is pleased to release the CFP for the Start-Your-Project award. This award is specifically designed to support small digital projects at various stages of development. Applications are due 1/27/25.
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December 18, 2024 at 3:00 PM
The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is pleased to release the CFP for the Start-Your-Project award. This award is specifically designed to support small digital projects at various stages of development. Applications are due 1/27/25.
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Here’s a list of what I was reading about Generative AI in 2024 that didn’t make it into the Slop Infrastructures pieces. The rest have been sorted into categories with questions — covering AI’s anti-human streak, AI & imagination, environmental impacts, shared myths and more.
Things I Read in 2024
A Partial List of Writing on Generative AI
There has been some great critical writing about Generative AI this year. This is a long post with many quotations that tries to give a snapshot of what ...
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December 15, 2024 at 12:52 PM
Here’s a list of what I was reading about Generative AI in 2024 that didn’t make it into the Slop Infrastructures pieces. The rest have been sorted into categories with questions — covering AI’s anti-human streak, AI & imagination, environmental impacts, shared myths and more.
I have an upcoming zoom interview for a TT faculty job in DH (in an English dept) that I’m very excited about. What’s your best advice for first-round interviews?
December 13, 2024 at 8:37 PM
I have an upcoming zoom interview for a TT faculty job in DH (in an English dept) that I’m very excited about. What’s your best advice for first-round interviews?
I intended to spend this #DayofDH2024 working on enriching my dataset of author identity representation in American literature anthologies, but the job market/cover letter writing chaos took precedence (which led to daydreaming about planning DH courses 🤓💭)
December 3, 2024 at 12:04 AM
I intended to spend this #DayofDH2024 working on enriching my dataset of author identity representation in American literature anthologies, but the job market/cover letter writing chaos took precedence (which led to daydreaming about planning DH courses 🤓💭)
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I made a starter pack for grad students in DH, to build visibility for a rising group of scholars.
If you want to be added (or know someone who should be), just comment!
go.bsky.app/8Bju8SY
If you want to be added (or know someone who should be), just comment!
go.bsky.app/8Bju8SY
November 30, 2024 at 12:23 AM
I made a starter pack for grad students in DH, to build visibility for a rising group of scholars.
If you want to be added (or know someone who should be), just comment!
go.bsky.app/8Bju8SY
If you want to be added (or know someone who should be), just comment!
go.bsky.app/8Bju8SY
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🚨I'm seeing some climate accounts posting overpopulation stuff, so I've removed the paywall from my article on the subject: Overpopulation Is A Racist Trope.
'Overpopulation' Is A Racist Trope. It's Time We Laid It To Rest
A new movie satirises the myth that climate change is a consequence of too many people. In the real world, our overpopulation obsession must be euthanised.
climatelaundry.substack.com
December 2, 2024 at 9:17 AM
🚨I'm seeing some climate accounts posting overpopulation stuff, so I've removed the paywall from my article on the subject: Overpopulation Is A Racist Trope.
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Excited to share that Feminist Digital Humanities: Intersections in Practice, which Susan Schreibman & I coedited, has a publication date and will be available fully OA on 4/8/2025!! @illinoispress.bsky.social
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0....
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0....
Feminist Digital Humanities
www.press.uillinois.edu
November 22, 2024 at 1:45 PM
Excited to share that Feminist Digital Humanities: Intersections in Practice, which Susan Schreibman & I coedited, has a publication date and will be available fully OA on 4/8/2025!! @illinoispress.bsky.social
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0....
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0....
Folks who manually encode texts using TEI: there’s a new-ish open-access program that makes it a million times easier! I published a user guide on encoding texts with FairCopy. It’s geared toward my encoding work w COVE, but anyone using TEI might find it useful: scalar.usc.edu/works/tei-te...
TEI Text Encoding: TEI Text Encoding: A FairCopy User Guide for COVE
scalar.usc.edu
November 20, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Folks who manually encode texts using TEI: there’s a new-ish open-access program that makes it a million times easier! I published a user guide on encoding texts with FairCopy. It’s geared toward my encoding work w COVE, but anyone using TEI might find it useful: scalar.usc.edu/works/tei-te...
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Years ago, a mentor of mine remarked in passing that there are 2 types of writers: those who write about complicated things in a straightforward manner, and those who write about straightforward things in a complicated manner. They encouraged me to be the former. I still think about this comment.
November 20, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Years ago, a mentor of mine remarked in passing that there are 2 types of writers: those who write about complicated things in a straightforward manner, and those who write about straightforward things in a complicated manner. They encouraged me to be the former. I still think about this comment.
Intro post for new bsky pals: I research American lit/film/new media using computational text analysis + poco and fem/queer theory. Currently working on a digital critical anthology of modernist works by marginalized creators. Owner of a geriatric Great Dane mix and the world’s friendliest cat.
November 20, 2024 at 1:21 AM
Intro post for new bsky pals: I research American lit/film/new media using computational text analysis + poco and fem/queer theory. Currently working on a digital critical anthology of modernist works by marginalized creators. Owner of a geriatric Great Dane mix and the world’s friendliest cat.
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I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in #NLP and #CulturalAnalytics.
Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎
Apply by December 15th!
Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎
Apply by December 15th!
November 19, 2024 at 10:38 AM
I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in #NLP and #CulturalAnalytics.
Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎
Apply by December 15th!
Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎
Apply by December 15th!
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Sharing this starter pack of people engaged in the field of digital preservation. Just let me know if you are working in digital preservation and would like to be added.
go.bsky.app/3SpFvF1
go.bsky.app/3SpFvF1
November 19, 2024 at 1:04 AM
Sharing this starter pack of people engaged in the field of digital preservation. Just let me know if you are working in digital preservation and would like to be added.
go.bsky.app/3SpFvF1
go.bsky.app/3SpFvF1
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Hello all - I finally managed to sit down for a few minutes and add all the remaining folks who asked to the second starter pack for Popular Culture and Media Studies. Please share and follow! 😊
go.bsky.app/FTB1Kd5
go.bsky.app/FTB1Kd5
November 19, 2024 at 12:43 AM
Hello all - I finally managed to sit down for a few minutes and add all the remaining folks who asked to the second starter pack for Popular Culture and Media Studies. Please share and follow! 😊
go.bsky.app/FTB1Kd5
go.bsky.app/FTB1Kd5
Favorite DH tool this week: Orange 🍊 I’m learning my way around the interface and working with a small corpus I’ve encoded to classify texts based on shared features.
November 17, 2024 at 2:46 AM
Favorite DH tool this week: Orange 🍊 I’m learning my way around the interface and working with a small corpus I’ve encoded to classify texts based on shared features.
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A new open-access journal, Public Humanities, has launched. I'm proud to have a piece in the inaugural "Manifesto" issue, on "The Necessity of Public Writing." I hope academo-friends will read, circulate, propose, and submit. doi.org/10.1017/pub....
November 15, 2024 at 4:36 PM
A new open-access journal, Public Humanities, has launched. I'm proud to have a piece in the inaugural "Manifesto" issue, on "The Necessity of Public Writing." I hope academo-friends will read, circulate, propose, and submit. doi.org/10.1017/pub....
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Anyone know of existing literature on student clubs or organizations that teach undergrads programming languages, UX prototyping and design, app development, etc.?
November 14, 2024 at 1:26 AM
Anyone know of existing literature on student clubs or organizations that teach undergrads programming languages, UX prototyping and design, app development, etc.?
My cat is more popular than I am. He’s skilled in unwelcome dataset manipulation (stepping on keyboard) and swatting at moving data visualizations. He’s working on a dissertation on cats w uncanny human-like facial expressions, but it’s basically an autobiography.
Hello Bluesky. I’m (Edgar Allan) Poe. I’ve been told I’m a cat, but I may actually be a very expressive mime in a cat suit.
November 13, 2024 at 7:47 PM
My cat is more popular than I am. He’s skilled in unwelcome dataset manipulation (stepping on keyboard) and swatting at moving data visualizations. He’s working on a dissertation on cats w uncanny human-like facial expressions, but it’s basically an autobiography.
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Didn't find one, so made a computational literary studies starter pack, with notable bunch of european folks and early career scholars.
My circle here is small, so please reply/dm to be added or removed and suggest people from your networks!
go.bsky.app/4et1nxZ
My circle here is small, so please reply/dm to be added or removed and suggest people from your networks!
go.bsky.app/4et1nxZ
November 12, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Didn't find one, so made a computational literary studies starter pack, with notable bunch of european folks and early career scholars.
My circle here is small, so please reply/dm to be added or removed and suggest people from your networks!
go.bsky.app/4et1nxZ
My circle here is small, so please reply/dm to be added or removed and suggest people from your networks!
go.bsky.app/4et1nxZ
I would love to connect with more grad students here! Has anyone created a starter pack for MA/PhD folks in Literature?
November 11, 2024 at 5:44 PM
I would love to connect with more grad students here! Has anyone created a starter pack for MA/PhD folks in Literature?
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For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free
Another world is possible if we fight for it
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
Another world is possible if we fight for it
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
November 9, 2024 at 8:22 PM
For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free
Another world is possible if we fight for it
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
Another world is possible if we fight for it
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
Aside from the generous estimation of the number of monitors I have, fairly accurate.
November 9, 2024 at 5:15 AM
Aside from the generous estimation of the number of monitors I have, fairly accurate.