Dissertation by Dorothy Kim
Responding to digital humanities’ issues with openness, race, disability, LGBTQ, feminist, and ot... more Responding to digital humanities’ issues with openness, race, disability, LGBTQ, feminist, and other kinds of non-normative bodies in the field, Dorothy Kim will outline a set of practical steps to #decolonizeDH, or to make it less white, heteropatriarchal, male, and ableist. She asks what are the field, departmental, and institutional steps to #decolonizeDH? What are the considerations that must be addressed in terms of politics, local action, education, and resistance?
Co-Sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor, from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Department of Art & Art History, Department of English, Department of Modern Languages & Cultures, Film & Media Studies, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, the Digital Scholarship Lab, and the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Digital Humanities at the University of Rochester.
Series Announcements by Dorothy Kim
The series welcomes proposals for monographs and essay collections in the fields of digital human... more The series welcomes proposals for monographs and essay collections in the fields of digital humanities, mapping, digital text analysis, games and gaming studies, literacy studies, and text production and interaction. We are especially interested in projects that demonstrate how digital methods and tools for research, preservation, and presentation influence the ways in which we interact with and understand these texts and media.
Presentations by Dorothy Kim
Help us to celebrates TEN years of the flourishing of GW MEMSI by rethinking and revisiting our v... more Help us to celebrates TEN years of the flourishing of GW MEMSI by rethinking and revisiting our very first event, the inaugural symposium called Touching the Past. Though in profound ways 2008 seems like a different world at this vantage, the Institute remains steadfast in its foundational belief that possible futures are to be found in encountering the past anew. With an emphasis on advent and touch (widely construed: physical, emotional, cross-species, intertemporal), the symposium hopes to engender lively conversation-and look forwards and back at once. The event includes some of the original presenters as well as many new voices. All are welcome.
The Hotel Lombardy
2019 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington DC
March 2, 2018
Feel
Carolyn Dinshaw (New York University): Doing Medieval Sex Work in the 21st Century: John/Eleanor Rykener and the Last of the Cockettes
Julian Yates (University of Delaware): Sting
Erica Fudge (University of Strathclyde): Leaning Up Against the Flank of a Cow
Moderated by Alexa Alice Joubin
3:00 PM
Coffee
3:30 PM
Grasp
Joe Moshenska (University of Cambridge): Touching the Past, Playing the Past
Anthony Bale (Birkbeck University of London): Being Margery Kempe
Ellen MacKay (University of Chicago): A History of Future Shocks: Jonah, Jamestown, and The Tempest's Preenactments
Moderated by Lowell Duckert
5:00 PM
Cocktail break
6:00 PM
Light dinner and revelry
March 3, 2018
9:30 AM
Breakfast (included for all registrants)
10:30 AM
Press
Dorothy Kim (Vassar College): The Jew, The Ethiopian, and St. Margaret
Steve Mentz (St John's University and the Bookfish) : How to Act Human in the Anthropocene
Peggy McCracken (University of Michigan): Cold Stone, Warm Flesh: Pygmalion’s Touch
Moderated by Jonathan Hsy
12:00 PM
Lunch (included for all registrants)
1:30 PM
Hold
Stephanie Trigg (University of Melbourne): Sense of Touch: Absolutely Similar
Jesús Rodríguez Velasco (Columbia University): The Soul as a Time Machine
Cord Whitaker (Wellesley College): Touching the Past in the Harlem Middle Ages
Moderated by Holly Dugan
3:00 PM
Coffee
3:30 PM
Let Go
Closing discussion and charting of futures, with all panelists, moderators, organizers ... and you.
4:30 PM
Prosecco, chocolate and strawberries to celebrate ten years of GW MEMSI
Papers by Dorothy Kim
A Cultural History of Race in the Renaissance and Early Modern Age, 2021
The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 2022
England, over 400 years, created the blueprint for an almost complete racialized state and contin... more England, over 400 years, created the blueprint for an almost complete racialized state and continued to use Jewish racialization after Jewish expulsion in 1290. 1 She uses medieval England's situation as a "case study of medieval race that concentrates on one country …" and in so doing tracks how structural racism is attached to medieval English Jews. Heng explains her method and approachmicrohistory and case study-as well as how this methodology reinforces her main argument about race in the medieval European past in The Invention of Race: The aim of this book is to sketch paradigms and models for thinking critically about medieval race, … that call attention to tendencies and patterns, inventions and strategies in race-making and identify crucibles and dynamics that conduce to the production of racial form and raced behavior. 2 Chapter 2, a microhistorical analysis, explains how this focus on local context, political and religious power, and western European parallels reveal an "English example" of medieval Jewish racialization that is "at once situation-specific and resonant." 3 There is no equivocation about the scope, range, methods, and critical theories Heng uses to discuss the Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages.
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 2018
It has been most recently discussed in relation to digital humanities entanglement with the stake... more It has been most recently discussed in relation to digital humanities entanglement with the stakes of the neoliberal university.
In Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, Michel-Rolph Trouillot writes that by... more In Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, Michel-Rolph Trouillot writes that by examining the process of history we can “discover the differential exercise of power that makes some narratives possible and silences others.” Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities examines the process of history in the narrative of the digital humanities and deconstructs its history as a straight line from the beginnings of humanities computing. By discussing alternatives histories of the digital humanities that address queer gaming, feminist game studies praxis, Cold War military-industrial complex computation, the creation of the environmental humanities, monolingual discontent in DH, the hidden history of DH in English studies, radical media praxis, cultural studies and DH, indigenous futurities, Pacific Rim postcolonial DH, the issue of scale and DH, the radical, indigenous, feminist histories of the digital database, and the possibilities for an antifascist DH, th...
Quimbadas, 2020
Linking both Harris's opening to "Whiteness as Property" and Kendall's opening in Hood Feminism t... more Linking both Harris's opening to "Whiteness as Property" and Kendall's opening in Hood Feminism to reexamine and position the details of Belle da Costa Greene's family and her mother's decision to move herself and her children across the color line, this essay situates Greene, her family, her career, and her personal book collection in contrast to her roles as the first librarian, first director, and person-in-charge of the acquisitions and the shapings of the Pierpont Morgan library. The article first discusses the complexities of "White Heritage as Property" and considers how manuscript and rare books collecting is another way to make white supremacist monuments of the "western civilization" past. The second part of the article addresses Belle da Costa Greene's personal manuscript collection, her formulation of herself in relation to Black Orientalism, and the practices of manuscript cataloging. Finally, the essay ends with an argument about how we can make racial and social reparations through various means, including manuscript cataloging, in order to do justice to Belle da Costa Greene's work and professional importance.
Medieval Feminist Forum, 2019
Debates in the Digital Humanities, 2018
Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures, 2016
Much of the Katherine Group’s critical history has centered on its West Midlands regionalism and ... more Much of the Katherine Group’s critical history has centered on its West Midlands regionalism and dialect. This article disrupts this regional focus to think more internationally. What is this manuscript’s place among the more international events and religious trends sweeping continental Europe in relation to the Crusades? This article will focus on crusader sermons and their connection to the Katherine Group in order to reframe the reading of the manuscript. The author evaluates the Katherine Group’s participation in international crusading rhetoric and how it performs an imaginative version of “geopiety.” The author also examines the scribal note at St. Juliana’s end and how it directly borrows from a popular circulating crusader sermon. This English text is casting itself as part of an international genre fixated on a different geography—the eastern Mediterranean—that highlights the geographic and generic liminality of these texts.
transversal, 2015
This article evaluates Jewish-Christian difference in the constantly shifting terrain of thirteen... more This article evaluates Jewish-Christian difference in the constantly shifting terrain of thirteenth-century medieval England. It reframes this difference in relation to theories of embodiment, feminist materialism, and entanglement theory. To conceptualize how Jews can be marked by race vis-à-vis the body, the article uses the example of Christian Hebraists discussing the Hebrew alphabet and its place in thirteenth-century English bilingual manuscripts.
transversal, 2015
This article evaluates Jewish-Christian difference in the constantly shifting terrain of thirteen... more This article evaluates Jewish-Christian difference in the constantly shifting terrain of thirteenth-century medieval England. It reframes this difference in relation to theories of embodiment, feminist materialism, and entanglement theory. To conceptualize how Jews can be marked by race vis-à-vis the body, the article uses the example of Christian Hebraists discussing the Hebrew alphabet and its place in thirteenth-century English bilingual manuscripts.
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Dissertation by Dorothy Kim
Co-Sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor, from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Department of Art & Art History, Department of English, Department of Modern Languages & Cultures, Film & Media Studies, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, the Digital Scholarship Lab, and the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Digital Humanities at the University of Rochester.
Series Announcements by Dorothy Kim
Presentations by Dorothy Kim
The Hotel Lombardy
2019 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington DC
March 2, 2018
Feel
Carolyn Dinshaw (New York University): Doing Medieval Sex Work in the 21st Century: John/Eleanor Rykener and the Last of the Cockettes
Julian Yates (University of Delaware): Sting
Erica Fudge (University of Strathclyde): Leaning Up Against the Flank of a Cow
Moderated by Alexa Alice Joubin
3:00 PM
Coffee
3:30 PM
Grasp
Joe Moshenska (University of Cambridge): Touching the Past, Playing the Past
Anthony Bale (Birkbeck University of London): Being Margery Kempe
Ellen MacKay (University of Chicago): A History of Future Shocks: Jonah, Jamestown, and The Tempest's Preenactments
Moderated by Lowell Duckert
5:00 PM
Cocktail break
6:00 PM
Light dinner and revelry
March 3, 2018
9:30 AM
Breakfast (included for all registrants)
10:30 AM
Press
Dorothy Kim (Vassar College): The Jew, The Ethiopian, and St. Margaret
Steve Mentz (St John's University and the Bookfish) : How to Act Human in the Anthropocene
Peggy McCracken (University of Michigan): Cold Stone, Warm Flesh: Pygmalion’s Touch
Moderated by Jonathan Hsy
12:00 PM
Lunch (included for all registrants)
1:30 PM
Hold
Stephanie Trigg (University of Melbourne): Sense of Touch: Absolutely Similar
Jesús Rodríguez Velasco (Columbia University): The Soul as a Time Machine
Cord Whitaker (Wellesley College): Touching the Past in the Harlem Middle Ages
Moderated by Holly Dugan
3:00 PM
Coffee
3:30 PM
Let Go
Closing discussion and charting of futures, with all panelists, moderators, organizers ... and you.
4:30 PM
Prosecco, chocolate and strawberries to celebrate ten years of GW MEMSI
Papers by Dorothy Kim
Co-Sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor, from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Department of Art & Art History, Department of English, Department of Modern Languages & Cultures, Film & Media Studies, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, the Digital Scholarship Lab, and the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Digital Humanities at the University of Rochester.
The Hotel Lombardy
2019 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington DC
March 2, 2018
Feel
Carolyn Dinshaw (New York University): Doing Medieval Sex Work in the 21st Century: John/Eleanor Rykener and the Last of the Cockettes
Julian Yates (University of Delaware): Sting
Erica Fudge (University of Strathclyde): Leaning Up Against the Flank of a Cow
Moderated by Alexa Alice Joubin
3:00 PM
Coffee
3:30 PM
Grasp
Joe Moshenska (University of Cambridge): Touching the Past, Playing the Past
Anthony Bale (Birkbeck University of London): Being Margery Kempe
Ellen MacKay (University of Chicago): A History of Future Shocks: Jonah, Jamestown, and The Tempest's Preenactments
Moderated by Lowell Duckert
5:00 PM
Cocktail break
6:00 PM
Light dinner and revelry
March 3, 2018
9:30 AM
Breakfast (included for all registrants)
10:30 AM
Press
Dorothy Kim (Vassar College): The Jew, The Ethiopian, and St. Margaret
Steve Mentz (St John's University and the Bookfish) : How to Act Human in the Anthropocene
Peggy McCracken (University of Michigan): Cold Stone, Warm Flesh: Pygmalion’s Touch
Moderated by Jonathan Hsy
12:00 PM
Lunch (included for all registrants)
1:30 PM
Hold
Stephanie Trigg (University of Melbourne): Sense of Touch: Absolutely Similar
Jesús Rodríguez Velasco (Columbia University): The Soul as a Time Machine
Cord Whitaker (Wellesley College): Touching the Past in the Harlem Middle Ages
Moderated by Holly Dugan
3:00 PM
Coffee
3:30 PM
Let Go
Closing discussion and charting of futures, with all panelists, moderators, organizers ... and you.
4:30 PM
Prosecco, chocolate and strawberries to celebrate ten years of GW MEMSI