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The Human Touch,
Software of the Highest Order
Keynote Address: Martha Nell Smith, University of Maryland
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"One of the most efficient ways to become acquainted with the dramatic changes in how 'American literature' is conceived, packaged and delivered is to browse through examples of titles, covers, and tables of contents reproduced from significant anthologies and histories. Even glancing at a few contents pages can raise fundamental questions, not only about the gender, race, class, and age representations of 'America,' but also about institutional and disciplinary changes." So Professor Ken Roemer speculates in the introduction to this celebrates resource which makes it possible to peruse all in one place these examples of American literary anthologies.
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Exchange Program in Digital Media, Mexico City: In the near future, we will be opening the eCreate Lab to students and faculty with interests in the digital media at three universities in Mexico City ~ the Universidad IberoAmericana, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and Technológico de Monterrey. This reciprocal opportunity to research, study and teach in both countries will help bridge cultural impasses in hands-on ways. In alternating terms, graduate students and faculty from those universities will come to Arlington to teach, study and research here. The eCreate Lab has already forged partnerships with the Department of Modern Languages, Art and Art History and the Center for Mexican-American Studies on the UTA campus, and we are in the process of setting up ties with the Interactive Arts and Science Program at Brock University and at the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto, both in Canada, as well as with the Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media at de Montfort University in the U.K. This new program with the Universidad IberoAmericana, UAM and Tecnológica has the potential to be an extremely rich cross-pollenization and will serve as the test case for a new program of visiting fellowships that we might later expand to include other institutions. These fellowships will encourage new work methods and collaborative agendas between our schools that will form a mezcla or medley of transcultural issues and research projects.
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