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The guy in the picture is moi trying to figure out how to be sane in a world disrupted by digital technologies.
Splendid job, aye?
I teach in the English department at the University of Southern Maine in Portland.
Over the last decade, I pivoted from literary studies to digital studies, from traditional humanities scholarship to digital humanities (DH). My recent book on drones examines the role of algorithmic thinking and practice in exercising dominance and control over vast territories and many peoples; it also studies the lineaments of the New Aesthetic as a distinct mood of contemporary digital societies.
I led two digital humanities projects: "Digital Maine" and "Commerce, Culture, and the North Atlantic."
Over recent years, I've been thinking about the value and necessity of public scholarship in a digital world, and the promising paths of inquiry opened up by the blue humanities.
I launched Maine Digital Collaborative to make scholarship accessible and relevant to broader publics, and use digital tools creatively to that end.
Public and Digital Scholarship
Public and Digital Scholarship
The project marks a turn towards the digital public humanities in four ways:
Digital creativity drives humanities research.
Specialized humanities knowledge is rewritten, re framed, and remixed to engage audiences outside the university.
Access is given to people with or without academic pedigree to engage in creative and critical thinking in public forums.
Humanities knowledge and skills are used to study matters of public concern.
If you wish to work on these projects or offer suggestions or to connect for any reason, just drop me a line. I'd love to hear from you. Please note that content is not limited to Maine. MDC publishes work that emphasizes any of the four points listed above.
muthyala@maine.edu
207-780-4780
Currently collaborating with a colleague from UMaine on a blue humanities initiative in the University of Maine System to integrate the arts and humanities with the marine sciences.
Blue Humanities
Blue Humanities
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