Modernist Magazines and Digital Humanities

Due Thursday 7/2

For this project you will work individually to add to the timeline what you consider to be important items in magazines during the post-War period, and to write a 2-3 paragraph blog post about them. You are totally free to cover whatever topic(s) in whichever magazine(s) you wish from the six listed below, and from the year 1920 and after.

• Coterie
• The New Age
• The Owl
• Poetry
• The Tyro
• Wheels

Your post should be tagged in the Category field with the term Post-War, plus any others that are relevant, including author(s), genre(s), and the other kinds of themes we've been discussing.

Your blog post should be unified like an essay, with a clear thesis statement, and use of evidence by way of quotation and linking to the page-images of any items you discuss in detail. Each person should aim to enter at least 3-5 items on the timeline.

Since the 2009 Digital Humanities Conference is currently taking place at the University of Maryland, I decided to add its Twitter feed to the aggregator on our website. You can now peruse the updates by following the Feeds link at the top of the site, or by going directly to http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/material-modernism/aggregator.

At the digital humanities conference, leading minds in the use of technology and information science for humanistic inquiry are presenting projects, ideas, theories, etc., many of which directly impinge on our work here. Feel free to blog any questions or observations, or to make comments on this post.

Check out participants' lightning interviews and other media here:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=dh09&aq=f

You might also wish to look at the leading journal in the field, Digital Humanities Quarterly.