Many thank yous & reports to write, but for now I am full of hipster brunch. I am going to crash in bed for the rest of the day with tea and water. The best part of #behnburney19 has been bringing wonderful people together, & now I need to not see a human for about 24 hours.
One of many aspects I love @ #BehnBurney19: people mark whiteness, don't present cis, het, European as the norm, discussion of the challenges teaching at PWIs
#BehnBurney19 Narain closes with questions of asylum today: do we help other women? What are our networks. She wrote this not far from Texas dentention centers (see image) & Torn Apart's map of spaces with "zero tolerance" migration of policy & incarceration sites #
#BehnBurney19 Narain: women save women not just from public censure but incarceration etc. And because they do this, they too risk censure, incarceration https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/behn/aphra/black_lady/
#BehnBurney19 Narain: Behn's Adventure of the Black Lady (1697) focuses on female networks of support: An older woman breaks parish law to take in pregnant Bellamora; a younger one fund's B's missing lover
#BehnBurney19 Narain: in Behn & Cavendish, the world is not a happy place and there is a call for women to support each other, often in opposition to the state.
#BehnBurney19 Narain examines women's solidarity & lack thereof in the works of Behn & Cavendish. She quotes Arendt & Calhoun on #worldmaking
#BehnBurney19 @ASECSWomen has a new prize focused on intersectional projects (review guaranteed @ABOwomeninarts) & @BWWA_BWWC #BWWC20 is still accepting proposals (producing @ABOwomeninarts special issue) https://bwwc2020.tcu.edu/
Last but not least session of #BehnBurney19 Power & Politics with Mona Narain & @marybethharris 1st some announcements
#BehnBurney19 @dorothyk98 : your student @KlcNAdams is wonderful. I was able to make a quick Sense & Sensibility Twine within the time constraints of a session (this included intro, conversation, et al before we started...
#BehnBurney19 other tidbits: @ABOwomeninarts will be publishing an article on using @twinethreads to make a feminist classroom game around Swift's Lady's Dressing Room www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50579/the-ladys-dr...
#BehnBurney19 other tidbits: everyone loves #goodSociety from @storybrewers
#BehnBurney19 other tidbits: you can learn to make a twitterbot from @zachwhalen http://www.zachwhalen.net/projects
#BehnBurney19 other tidbits I learned: @howet has a twitterbot @AustenSays http://cerisia.cerosia.org/?p=1255
#BehnBurney19 other tidbits I learned: @V_and_A has a virtual wig maker: https://www.vam.ac.uk/designawig/
#BehnBurney19 @howet noted how we can add an inventory for our character, random events, etc to @twinethreads We also worked on adding images, video, css. Some resources: Twine Wiki: https://twinery.org/wiki/start Allison Parrish's tutorial http://catn.decontextualize.com/twine/
#BehnBurney19 @howet noted how we can add an inventory for our character, random events, etc to @twine
My undergraduate research fellow and conference superhero @MG__writes asks a useful question about labels and their freight to @KleinUla ! #BehnBurney19 @AULiberalArts
And now @EmileeDurand “channels the 18c” with her title... #BehnBurney19
And now @KleinUla will continue to think through the ways gender boundaries are crossed in work connected to her forthcoming @uvapress book! #BehnBurney19
Shout out from @hmchaskin to @JuliaFtacek’s work as she speaks about trans readings situated historically #BehnBurney19
#BehnBurney19 Various comments from others: for the most part, none of our students will belong to the class that Evelina. At best we are the descendants of glaziers or clergy that did economically well
#BehnBurney19 Various comments from others: can we use the game to highlight the real danger Evelina is in, so that students understand the stakes? Thinking of how avatars in @SecondLife offered students the opportunity to roleplay in a different subject position.
#BehnBurney19 Adams: in @twinethreads you are the main character. What are ways that we can discuss privilege, race in our classroom? How do you make a game that deals with scenes like the carriage in a way that is thoughtful
#BehnBurney19 @KlcNAdams : now sharing how she made a game based on Burney's Evelina, as a way of teaching about women's choices & autonomy, helping students move away from binaries where autonomy is either possessed or lost https://www.coursicle.com/brandeis/courses/UWS/44A/
#BehnBurney19 @twinethreads workshop by @KlcNAdams @BrandeisU “Using Twine in the Classroom: How Play Enhances the Pedagogical Experience” She is building on her DH grad class with the amazing @dorothyk98
Always proud of the students of @auburn_theatre and am so glad to watch them impress my colleagues from all over the world with their performance and their preparation and professionalism. @AULiberalArts #BehnBurney19
