By Anne Cong-Huyen. The following was originally posted at my personal blog.
Below is the talk I gave as part of a roundtable on race in the digital humanities at CESA2013. It really should have included "Being a Woman of Color in the digital humanities" as part of the title, but much of the presentation was a result of observations I made as the conference approached, and not what I actually wrote in the abstract. I do eventually get to the Asian Am projects toward the end. I also have to admit that this isn't really the kind of talk I'd give at a "DH" conference (you'll see why), but there is safety in a space like CESA that we cannot underestimate, and hence the confessions came out when and where they did. (Hopefully, this doesn't get a ton of people all mad at me!) More...

Fine and applied arts graduates are earning 12 per cent less than high school graduates once their education costs are factored in, a new survey has found.
Fine and applied arts graduates are earning 12 per cent less than high school graduates once their education costs are factored in, a new survey has found. The study by CIBC World Markets economists also notes the cost of a bachelor's degree is 20 per cent higher than it was in the late 2000s - but the unemployment rate among university graduates is now only 1.7 percentage points lower than high school graduates. More...

By Laura B. McGrath. Laura B. McGrath is a PhD student in English at Michigan State University. She tweets at @lbmcgrath and blogs at Emerging Modernisms.
If you had told me three years ago that I would be a proponent of collaboration in the humanities, I would have laughed at you. Three years ago, I was concluding an MA in Higher Education. With the exception of my thesis, I submitted mostly collaboratively authored papers and almost always worked in assigned groups during the two-year MA. Yet, I wasn’t sold on collaborative scholarship. I said “Thanks, but no thanks,” and took my chances in an English PhD program. As a scholar in the humanities, I assumed I would be free of cumbersome group work, free to work alone. Read more...