'It Doesn't Work': Failure and DH Tools

July 21st 2020
The following are my remarks for the DH 2020 "Tool Criticism 3.0" workshop [https://dls.hypotheses.org/1110] hosted by the Digital Literary Stylistics SIG. If you'd like to enjoy it in video form (it's fast-paced and colorful and fairly fun for this kind of talk)... read more

Rolling the Dice on Project Management

June 6th 2020
The following is a transcript of a video I put together for the DHSI 2020 project management workshop [https://dhsi.org/dhsi-2020/dhsi-2020-project-management/]. I usually prefer text to video, myself... read more

Pandemic, Parenting, Pedagogy

March 27th 2020
“Turn it OFF!” protested my almost-2-year-old as I sat in the kitchen on Wednesday morning, on a Zoom call with DARIAH folks from across Europe and the US. I plied her with a snack, but ultimately she prevailed when... read more

Working conditions

March 21st 2020
I’m writing this on a Saturday. I mention this not out of academic work-ethic virtue-signaling, but because it’s connected to the a sense of time unraveling, even over the course of a single week under the shelter-in-place mandate in the Bay Area... read more

On the future of Slavic DH in the United States

July 12th 2019
These were my comments framing the "Methodology as Community: Fostering Collaboration Beyond Scholarly Societies" panel at DH 2019 in Utrecht, with Peter Haslinger, Antonina Puchkovskaia, Seth Bernstein... read more

4th Year Russian, 3rd time around

April 2nd 2019
I was 15 when the Cyrillic alphabet shifted from an exotic set of vaguely-familiar symbols to something I could read. After attending high school in Argentina for a summer as an exchange student (where I was first introduced to Harry Potter and his “piedra filosofal”)... read more