Pixellating is a monthly Digital Humanities (DH) mixer. It is an opportunity for DH scholars and students from across campus to meet colleagues, talk tools, brainstorm ideas and network with others who use digital tools to explore and visualize their research. This month we will be featuring a project showcase with time for a Q&A afterward. The February 26, 2021 event will feature CENES Department member Dr. Katherine Bowers speaking about her work with creative twitter.
Register here to receive the event link: https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/calendar/vancouver/pixellating-20200226
This presentation will discuss two creative “Twitterature” projects that used Twitter to narrate Dostoevsky’s novels: @RodionTweets and @YakovGolyadkin. Originally planned as public outreach projects, both had unexpected results in the realms of teaching and research. The presentation will discuss the nuts and bolts of doing these kinds of projects, what we learned, the impact on a public engagement level and peculiarities of Twitter as a platform for creative work, what benefits Twitterature brings to the literature classroom and how to use it in your teaching, and the surprising research questions that emerged from the projects.
The event is part of the Pixellating Project Showcase speaker series hosted by the UBC library Research Commons.
