Tech Won't Save Us: Reflections on the Messiness of Digital Scholarship

Though digital projects can produce exciting new opportunities for your research and teaching, they can also perpetuate social biases and power dynamics. Navigating this tension is often messy and requires self-reflexiveness. You might even find yourself pushing back against the technology altogether. Please join us for a lunchtime talk by Sarah Payne, DLA Postdoctoral Fellow, and learn more about how her training in both literature and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies has influenced her approach to the messiness of digital scholarship. You’ll hear more about Sarah’s experience working in digital scholarship, her current research, and how she can help you with your own digital explorations. Lunch will be provided beginning at 12:15. This event is open to the public, but for catering purposes please email dla@middlebury.edu to RSVP by Sept 21.