Reading

I occasionally use BookWyrm for sharing what I’m reading, and I love the interactions on there. (This “part of a larger community” feeling is what I’ve loved about our reading sites like GoodReads in the past as well.)

Simultaneously, I’m most reliable about tracking my reading here—and I’m still aiming to write more posts that link to these notes, somewhat like Mandy Brown does in her A Working Library site.

As you’ll notice, I often read works in parallel. For the next couple years, I’ll also be heavily prioritizing the things on my Ph.D. exam reading lists.

Currently Reading

Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution

By: Maurice S. Lee
Last updated: 2024-07-11
Amount read: 108 of 277 pages

Progress:108 pages

Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order

By: Stuart Hall, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke, and Brian Roberts
Last updated: 2023-02-01
Amount read: 32 of 451 pages

Progress:32 pages

My Current Comprehensive Exam Lists

Exam List 1: Information Control and Making Meaning in Modern/Postmodern Texts

Started: 2024-04-22
Last updated: 2024-05-22
Amount read: 5 of 35 works

Progress: 5 works

Exam List 2: Mobility, Agency, & Surveillance in 20th & 21st Century American Literature

Started: 2024-04-22
Last updated:
Amount read: 5 of 35 works

Progress: 5 works

Exam List 3: Composition and Information Literacy, Pedagogy and Instructional Design

Started: 2024-04-22
Last updated: 2024-05-10
Amount read: 2 of 35 works

Progress: 2 works

Previously Read

2024

• Capital is Dead. Is This Something Worse? by McKenzie Wark
  

  Wark asks us to think about information less like Marxists and more like Marx.

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
  

  Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter searching for escaped androids in a radioactive Northern California where social status is measured by caring for live animals, as an indicator of empathy.

• El oro de los sueños by José María Merino
  

  A edition of José María Merino’s book, adapted by Yolanda Pinto Gómez.

• How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics by N. Katherine Hayles
  

  Hayles examines literary fiction and technological texts for her study of how information became conceived of as immaterial, of how the figure of the cyborg was invented in cultural and technological discourses, and how this cybernetic discourse altered the understanding of the liberal humanist subject.

• Juan Ponce de León and the Discovery of Florida Reconsidered. by Samuel Turner open access
  

  This article provides an up-to-date interpretation of primary and secondary accounts of Ponce de León’s travels to Florida.

• Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes by Flower Darby & James M. Lang
  

  Darby and Lang offer a wealth of small interventions one can make to improve the experiences of online learners and teachers. I definitely recommend this for anyone who teaches online.

2023

• Actively Engaging Students in Asynchronous Online Classes. by Shannon A. Riggs & Kathryn E. Linder open access
  

  Abstract: This paper suggests a three-pronged approach for conceptualizing active learning in the online asynchronous class: the creation of an architecture of engagement in the online classroom, the use of web-based tools in addition to the learning management system, and a re-imagining of discussion boards as interactive spaces.

• Modernist Informatics: Literature, Information, and the State by James Purdon
  

  Purdon examines modernist fiction to trace how writers experienced information culture as a disturbing interruption and governmental intrusion.