Published at Long Last!

Katherine D. Harris and I started working on what would become chapter 6, “Why (in the World) Teach Digital Humanities at a Teaching-Intensive Institution?” before the pandemic, and I met with Brian Croxall at the MLA Conference in Seattle in January 2020 to discuss our first version. That was my last travel before everything shutdown. So, I was delighted–at last–to receive this book as an early Christmas present from University of Minnesota Press. It was a pleasure, as always, to collaborate with Katherine on this publication. Thanks, Kathy! I’m looking forward to reading the rest of it, and a big thank you to Croxall and Jakacki for seeing it through!

What We Teach When We Teach DH
Digital Humanities in the Classroom, edited by Brian Croxall and Diane K. Jakacki, University of Minnesota Press, 2023. As the press overview describes it: “Exploring how digital humanities (DH) is taught and what that reveals about the field, this book highlights how DH can transform learning across a vast array of curricular structures, institutions, and education levels, from high schools and small liberal arts colleges to research-intensive institutions and postgraduate professional development programs.”

Honorable Mention for Top Book in Second Language Learning and Teaching

I’m delighted that a book to which I contributed was named Honorable Mention for the Mildenberger Prize, an award given by the MLA for the top book in second language learning and teaching. The book, Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching: The Rise of a New
Knowledge Ecology, was co-edited by Carl S. Blyth, associate professor of French linguistics at the University of Texas, Austin, and Joshua J. Thoms, professor of applied linguistics and Spanish at Utah State University. The prize is awarded for an outstanding work in the fields of language, culture, literacy, and literature with strong application to the teaching of languages other than English.

The committee’s citation for the honorable mention reads:

Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching: The Rise of a New
Knowledge Ecology operationalizes the open educational movement in the context of
language teaching and learning. A historical overview of the movement is supplemented
with a thorough exploration of the new knowledge ecologies it produces, particularly in
the world of language education in and beyond the classroom context. By combining
theory and practice with examples for a range of different languages, Carl S. Blyth and
Joshua J. Thoms’s book is relevant across many fields and for researchers as well as
educators.

I co-authored a chapter with Carl Blyth called, “Towards a Pedagogy of Openness: Bridging English-language and foreign-language Digital Humanities.” The book was released as open access and can be downloaded for free from here: https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?k=9781800411005

The prize went to Leaver, Davidson & Campbell (eds) for Transformative language Learning and Teaching (Cambridge U Press). Read the full press release here: Krebs, Paula M. BETTY LOU LEAVER, DAN E. DAVIDSON, AND CHRISTINE CAMPBELL TO RECEIVE THE MLA’S KENNETH W. MILDENBERGER PRIZE FOR TRANSFORMATIVE LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING; CARL S. BLYTH AND JOSHUA J. THOMS TO RECEIVE HONORABLE MENTION. Modern Language Association, 6 Dec. 2023, )