So far the second and final year of my Public History graduate program at Duquesne University is full of new experiences, both exciting and mildly terrifying:
Preparing for a presentation at an international oral history conference in October
Reading avant-garde poetry in the first Literature class I've taken in eight years
Blogging!
I've been thinking about blogging for years. I have many thoughts/questions/daydreams and it would be nice to have them all in one place. Plus, I love the thought of using a blog as a vehicle for sharing informal and not-quite-polished scholarship! One of the first pieces we read for my Digital Humanities & the Historian course this semester explored this idea. In a selection from Hacking the Academy: New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities, Mark Sample defines his blogging practice as a precursor to scholarship. He shares "ideas in incubation that will eventually surface...the posts are placeholders, in a sense, for the real intellectual work that lies ahead." I'm using this as my inspiration from here on out. Let the blogging begin!