#cathy davidson

[gothicseverance]

The Gothic novel is, in its conclusion, typically neither open nor closed — but slightly ajar.

—Industrial Gothic

Gif by @maxanor 🖤

[thoughtshrapnel]

"Cathy Davidson, a major player in the digital humanities and discussions of new models of higher education, is leaving Duke University for the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Davidson is currently the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and the Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English at Duke University. She is also co-founder of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory), and the Graduate Center will become the main home of the organization. At CUNY, Davidson will be a professor of English at the Graduate Center and will direct the Futures Initiative, a CUNY-wide program to promote collaborative and participatory innovation in higher education." Cathy is on the board of Mozilla and tweets at @CathyNDavidson. :-)

[provosttbrown]

Thinking locally, sharing globally

On Friday, January 31, a group of fifteen faculty and staff gathered came together as students for…

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[acharyapahndeepah]

Coursera Blog • An Experimental “Meta-MOOC” Shaping the Future of Higher Education

When Professor Cathy Davidson of Duke University agreed to teach a Coursera course on the “History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education,” which will launch on January 27, 2014, she was determined to see how the course itself could help others to think…

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[meissa]

We think we see the whole world, but we actually see a very particular part of it.

Cathy N. Davidson

[thoughtshrapnel]

[jmjafrx]

Humanities 2.0 in the Law in Slavery and Freedom Project

  “A second project that fits under the rubric of Humanities 2.0 is also a hybrid of authority and participation, peer review and commu- nity contribution. It combines collaborative pedagogy with collaborative research. I refer to the Law in Slavery and…

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[chowleen]

a heartfelt and lovely post by Cathy Davidson. Important to me for reasons both personal and professional.

 You literally can’t see what you can’t see–so the able brained can’t see beyond their own abilities to realize those are not universal.  Since I do see, it is my task to be able to make the bridge from the way my brain works to theirs.