Bethany Nowviskie

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For storing silliness. De gustibus non disputandum.

Digital Humanities Dream Karaoke
bizarro-perfume reviews (or: “Ain’t She Sweet?”)
Tiny Treasures of the Pataphysical Tradition
Dr. Kremlin’s Disc, specifications for a Hermann Hesse/Peter Suber/Ramon Llull/Marie Corelli-inspired game that was one of the goofball interludes in my 2004 doctoral dissertation, Speculative Computing.
my Gaelic-language blog
Directions for visiting a John Keats performance piece I built years ago (along with its surrounding wonderland and set of puzzles) in a text-based online virtual reality, or MOO
The Death-Wake; or Lunacy. A Necromaunt in Three Chimeras. (in a newly-discovered ludic edition by Ivy Bannishe-K’weto, published in a series of Tiny Treasures of the ‘Pataphysical Tradition)
The Rossetti Archive Gallery / Cult of the Wombat
We eloped! Here are some images from our wedding trip to Scotland (decade-old news, now)
and finally, my beautiful babies, works in progress.

About the tumbling letters on the main page:

They fall in a random sequence, and at random depths in your field of view, according to a simple algorithm I expressed in Flash ActionScript way back when that was a thing. If, like Falstaff, you’re feeling “scoured to nothing with perpetual motion,” you can press the little green button. I didn’t stack the deck by including extra vowels or weighting other frequencies. Coherent words rarely tumble down the screen, so the longer the word, the luckier you are.

“Dystopic” and “Berlin.” Coincidence? Prophecy?

Brendan reports: “Sexy Button! It’s a Fib.” And a hungry Chad claims to have been tempted with “Garlic Naan.”

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about nowviskie.org

Bethany Nowviskie writes here on the digital humanities, graduate training for alternative visions of the academy (sometimes called #altac), and on textual criticism, libraries, and scholarly communication. This page also houses a traditional vita and information on projects and software. Recently profiled in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Nowviskie is Director of Digital Research & Scholarship (including the Scholars' Lab) at the University of Virginia Library, Special Advisor to UVa's Provost, a CLIR Distinguished Presidential Fellow, and immediate Past President of the ACH. Her muse, according to Willard McCarty, "is one angry B."

recent/upcoming

New responsibilities have me scaling back on travel. Last year's major events included: chairing the Digital Humanities conference, a keynote on the Scholars' Lab in Tokyo, an invited talk on digital materiality at the MLA Convention's Presidential Forum; various Neatline workshops, and a stint as a Lansdowne Visiting Scholar at UVic in Canada. I continue to teach at UVa's Rare Book School, and will give a only small number of talks this academic year, on a "New Deal" for the humanities and the imperatives of DH in the Anthropocene.

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fight club soap
why, oh why, CC-BY?
announcing #Alt-Academy
a skunk in the library
reality bytes

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johannes factotum & the ends of expertise
neatline & visualization as interpretation
a kit for hosting Speaking in Code
digital humanities in the anthropocene
anthropocene abstract

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Nowviskie.org and its contents are the sole responsibility of Dr. Bethany Nowviskie and are not meant to reflect the opinions of her employers, colleagues, children, or imaginary friends.

Questions? Comments? Connections to be made? Contact me at bethany@virginia.edu

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Work at nowviskie.org by Bethany Nowviskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
This site runs a heavily modified version of Bryan Helmig's Magatheme. I designed the falling letters circa 1998, and never get tired of them.