Publications
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The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit
(2012)
Intense attention has been paid to Detroit as a site of urban crisis. This crisis, however, has not only yielded the massive devaluation of real estate that has so often been noted; it has also yielded an explosive production ...
Stamping American Memory: Collectors, Citizens, and the Post
(2018)
Winner of the University of Michigan Press / Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) Prize for Notable Work in the Digital Humanities In the age of digital communications, it can ...
A World of Fiction: Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History
(2019)
During the 19th century, throughout the Anglophone world, most fiction was first published in periodicals. In Australia, newspapers were not only the main source of periodical fiction, but the main source of fiction in ...
Finding Voice: A Visual Arts Approach to Engaging Social Change
(2018)
In Finding Voice, Kim Berman demonstrates how she was able to use visual arts training in disenfranchised communities as a tool for political and social transformation in South Africa. Using her own fieldwork as a case ...
Rhetorical Code Studies: Discovering Arguments in and around Code
(2019)
Winner of the 2017 Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Book Prize Software developers work rhetorically to make meaning through ...
Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good
(2016)
Modern academic criticism bursts with what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick once termed paranoid readings—interpretative feats that aim to prove a point, persuade an audience, and subtly denigrate anyone who disagrees. Driven by ...
The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny
(2016)
The Resonance of Unseen Things offers an ethnographic meditation on the “uncanny” persistence and cultural freight of conspiracy theory. The project is a reading of conspiracy theory as an index of a certain strain of late ...
This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities
(2010)
A look at what it's like to play video games, their cultures in three different international cities, and their significance in everyday life
Traces of the Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies
(2015)
Digital Humanities remains a contested, umbrella term covering many types of work in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, linguistics, classics, theater, performance studies, film, media studies, computer ...
Sites of Translation: What Multilinguals Can Teach Us about Digital Writing and Rhetoric
(2018)
Winner of the 2016 Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Book Prize Sites of Translation illustrates the intricate rhetorical work that multilingual communicators engage in as they translate information for their ...