MLA Executive Council Nomination

As many of you know, nominations for the Modern Language Association Executive Council are anonymous, so I was honored to be asked to run as one of the graduate student candidates. The current council told me that my nomination was accepted based on my status as a graduate student, my experience as a part-time faculty […]

#MLA15 Presentation

Tales from a Silver Medalist: Publishing an Interactive, Collaborative Article in JITP The following post contains the slides and transcript from my presentation at the Modern Language Association convention held in Vancouver in January 2015. This presentation was accepted as part of a panel on scholarly communication, here is the call: What Does It Mean […]

#remixthediss

Here is my Prezi for #remixthediss, a presentation of non-tradition approaches to the dissertation being held at the Graduate Center, CUNY and live-streamed here: http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/2014/08/28/what-dissertation-new-models-methods-media http://prezi.com/skvk1o59_1hk/remixthediss/#

NFAIS Humanities Roundtable Presentation

These are the slides for my Sept. 29th featured presentation at the NFAIS Humanities Roundtable in New York. View the full program here Full text of this presentation will be added to this post soon. Licastro_NFAIS_HumanitiesRoundtable_Fall2014 from Amanda Licastro  

Thinking and Writing Through New Media

Here is the syllabus for a new course I will be teaching at the NYU Gallatin school this Fall. The course is a first year writing seminar I designed called “Thinking and Writing Through New Media.” The goal is for students to critically examine the past, present, and future of writing technologies as a lens […]

#AAEEBL2014 Presentation

Here is my presentation for the 2014 AAEEBL conference, complete with text. Thank you to those who came, to Macaulay Honors College for their support, and to those reading this for their constructive feedback. Abstract: After over a decade of integrating eportfolio technology into the post-secondary classroom, where do we stand? The pedagogical practice of […]

Playing with Data

This will be the first in what I hope to be a series of posts describing how I began dealing with my dissertation data. I am writing these posts in order to help others embark on data-driven projects, as well as to document my process. It is important to disclose that I am new to […]

Dissertation Prospectus

Thanks to the feedback from my committee, especially Matt Gold, my prospectus was approved in March of 2014. Many people have asked to see this document as an example, so I am releasing it publicly. Please note that this document is only a proposal – and a work-in-progress.   Prospectus_Licastro_March2014

#DayofDH

To kick off my dissertation blogging, I am participating in the Day of DH project. Here is the site where I will be updating my progress: http://dayofdh2014.matrix.msu.edu/digitocentrism/

Instructional Technology

This page links to many of the course sites and innovative assignments I constructed as an Instructional Technology Fellow (ITF) at Macaulay Honors College. All of this material was developed in collaboration with the professors and students in each course, and with the brilliant support of Joe Ugoretz and the ITF team. Seminar 1: Arts […]