Helen Davies
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Medievalist. Digital Humanities (so, of course, twitter). Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Colorado Springs
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Student evals:
Question "How could the instuctor have Improved the class?"
Student Answer "Dr. Davies mentioned at the start of the semester that she got a new puppy and never shared a photo"
You know, fair, honestly
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We are taking this nugget home on Friday. Naming suggestions welcome. Please try to come up with as weird and old lady as possible (besides helen).
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Found a signed copy of Neil Gaiman
@neilhimself
at a book store in downstate Illinois- and I am thrilled
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One of my graduate students emailed me in a language that I could not even identify.
Old frisian. one of my graduate students just sent me an email of Old Frisian.
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Well a zoom meeting later, and I am officially Dr. Davies
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I am starting this fall as an assistant professor of Digital Humanities in the English department at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs! I am super thrilled for this next step
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every time I start grading final projects, I think of my mom who as a university librarian would also adjunct teaching technology - and would keep a word document of comments next to her grading and then just copy and paste as needed
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At what point after grad school do you stop staring at every decent piece of furniture on the curb like is this free or are you just moving ?
Cause … that table is really nice
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@librarylarissa
Honestly that’s very good. Gertrude is a contender and Mildred has the Same vibes
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Did a thing. Wrote a long book report. Now it is officially done .
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“This dude Alisaundre” is how I refer to Alexander the Great now
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You know, academia can be pretty weird at times, but one of my friends works in hotels and is currently trying to figure out what to do about one of the house keepers repeatedly trying to curse the other. There is garlic involved. and witchcraft.
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Last time I was at the Globe Theater, I was 16 and sat with headphones on to protest my parents attempt to make me cultured. Tonight I went back for the first time with a PhD in medieval literature and leading a study abroad class.... I left at intermission. I am the worst
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my defense is in just over 12 hours, and I want you to know that it is possible that I have never known anything about any thing ever. I am not sure that I have ever read a book. and this is going to go really well.
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A very specific type of nostalgia this morning. I miss sitting in bars with other medievalists debating ideas (read: arguing about things no one else cares about.)
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medieval maps don't normally say here be dragons - but this one does say "here are camels"
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I submitted my dissertation yesterday with my advisor’s name spelled wrong. How’s your day going?
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What's the stupidest thing you have done in quarantine since you can't access all the academic books?
I just went and looked at the Hereford Mappa Mundi dish towel for location of the trees of the sun & moon since I can't access Scott Westrem's Hereford edition at the moment.
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"I am sorry, hold on, my cat just killed a mouse" - I say as I run off screen after being asked a question in a kzoo zoom panel.
The cat for the record has no teeth. She gummed a mouse to death in the middle of a zoom panel. 2021 in a nutshell.
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I have virtual new faculty orientation today - and honestly- I just CANNOT believe someone gave me a job.
Like what were you thinking?!
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Most People: I’m going to stock up on toilet paper and canned food
Grad student brain: I’m going to hoard library books in case they don’t let me in to work on my dissertation
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My PhD officially completed today and really I think that this means the university should send someone over to take care of all your other duties for like a while so you can just take one supremely long and justified nap
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I guess its sweet that he thought I would ... just be able to read it?
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In 2021, I pitched a DH center to my university and then didn't hear anything back.
Then all of a sudden this semester - we got approval to move forward with it?! Its real?! Its happening?! I may have created (started the creation of) a DH center.
Wild.
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Guys. I have finally finalized my syllabi with this addition:
"Feb. 25: Guest Lecture:
Dr. John Wyatt Greenlee, "What the Fuck is a Map? Wait...All These Things Are Maps? Fuck."
@greenleejw
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Last night my co-teacher & I discussed our research to our freshman class. At the end of describe multispectral imaging for medieval manuscripts, one student went “WAIT. That’s a class that you can take?? Here??”
In the midst of a semester full of student apathy, a bright spot
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English department printer. one week in. We're all doing great over here, thanks for asking.
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I got an email from a student after my second ever class as a professor saying she had never heard of digital humanities, but she thinks it’s a term for the stuff she likes and wants to meet to discuss grad school options.
So that’s pretty cool.
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My sweet, non-academic boyfriend thinks that "there shouldn't be a problem" with space as I move my books into his house
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Do I need a better class organization structure than shit I like?
Welcome to the medieval period: its fucking weird. Enjoy.
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*grumbles* some of us do actually like IPAs
I’ll know toxic masculinity has been ended when y’all admit IPAs taste terrible.
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graduate student sends me an email that simply reads: I am stuck in a salvage yard.
No further information provided. Folks, I have a lot of follow up questions.
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Sometimes you login to twitter to unexpectedly find the world has given you a gift.
Today
@greenleejw
made the Davies Map Recognition Scale. It is perfection itself.
#medievaltwitter
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me: this is my professional twitter. I make a lot of professional connections on here.
me: I will make my picture the time I met the donkey who is the mayor of Divide, CO
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This twitter account is really going to just be me tweeting my students’ reactions to digital humanities for the entire semester.
“I’m confused I thought this was an English class, but we appear to be coding”
Yeah, same, student, Just same. I don’t know how we got here either
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my students had to turn in a travel narrative. A solid chunk of them are adventures with their dogs. They include pictures. Honestly, they are correct - this is the way to get an A.
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As of this afternoon, the
@UCCS
digital humanities center exists. I am now officially a co-director of a digital humanities center. I am so thrilled.
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When you conquer the known world, but still want to bring your cat with you on your submarine
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@histofsex
Also very good. But maybe nothing that sounds like a New England setting of an early American novel
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y'all got ring lights. I have a new space heater that emits ominous red light. You look lovely on zoom. I look like I am in Mordor about to destroy the one ring.
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Grad students have really upped their gift giving game since the days of giving your teacher an Apple. A box set of
@Norsebysw
editions!
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y'all. Why am I working at the one coffee shop that doesn't have any baked goods. I had to order a salad. who wants to stress eat a salad?!
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We need to talk more about the insane amount of work grad students (or recent grads) do helping their friends navigate university bureaucracy. Like your success in your comp. exams shouldn’t depend on who you happen to befriend. There shouldn’t be 2 levels of comps instruction
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Y’all - I know already tweeted that the chapter I wrote for this was out - but I have never held a book in my hand that I contributed to. Here it is!
#MedievalTwitter
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I lied, my next project is apparently not going to be called 'totes a map', my article "Multispectral Imaging of the Vercelli Mappamundi" is out today in the newest edition of Imago Mundi. I am so excited to see this article in (digital) print!
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boy asks me on a date.
I ask him if he wants to hear about medieval ostriches.
- actual conversation that just happened.
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One day I am going to a write a book on the strange sexism surrounding beer. Yes, there is the traditional dude bro explaining beer. But I really recommend the experience of being a lady & ordering a full pint in the Uk or in the US insisting that yes I do know what cask ale is
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Good morning. I just found an article in which the author says they have not seen the original object, but they have seen a children's book on it. which was helpful because it had color pictures in it. so this is how I write things now.
#medievaltwitter
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y'all. I am teaching a class on travel writing in the fall, and I think I am going to pair Margery Kempe with Eat, Pray, Love. I have been cackling with this idea for two days now
#medievaltwitter
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When doing your PhD, it is very exciting to be able to make your own contribution to scholarship. For example: today, I identified sheep river on an old map. I would like to be forever known as the girl who found sheep river. This is my one and only contribution. I am done now.
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y'all I just discovered someone in 13th c france looked at a bestiary and went ah, yes, the perfect fodder for a diatribe on love. THEN someone wrote a response in the same bestiary format from the woman's perspective. honestly why would you study any other time period
#Medieval
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While all my friends are dropping like flies with Covid and have high fevers, I would like to take this moment to remember that my advisor (not the Atlantis one. Yet) once told me that she read Piers Plowman with a fever and it was the only time it made sense to her
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Finished teaching for the semester the first of my classes as a professor. Y'all. They are so good. I am so tired. They are so good and smart and impressive in the face of all this.
I might like even have an emotion about it.
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Y'all, a former students is now student teaching. In her first lesson, she had the students create a map of a text. She showed me a pic of the map made by a student and told me she wouldn't have thought of doing that if it wasn't for my class. I will be riding this high all week
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I was talking to a friend from grad school about how neither of us have really found academic community in our new locations and how we both miss it.
His wife w/ the sweetest intention asked “ do you think you can do a meet up for academics who feel isolated”
could you imagine
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Dear Colleagues, Sorry for my insane email style. It is what it is. No one likes it. Including me. but we are all stuck with it. You all hired me.
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Everyone has their own markers of adulthood, their own markers that life has changed. Some people buy a house, some people get married or have a kid. I am paying to have a fitted sheet for my stay in the dorms at kzoo. Moving up in this world.
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@gunnstreetgrrl
of the
@UofR
Digital Scholarship Lab took these amazing photographs of the
@smithsonian
Armenian manuscript (USNM 329.769) which
@Lazarus_Imaging
is imaging this week
#medievaltwitter
#manuscripts
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Sometimes (like when I’m preparing slides on 3D modeling) I think about my grad school professor who had a double PhD in art history and archaeology & had to listen in polite bewilderment to humanities professors who seemed to suddenly realize that material culture was important
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Any medievalists / DH folks interested in a kzoo roundtable on "Digital Humanities without a Budget", I would love for you to join us! I am particularly interested in folks who have to come up with practical solutions to teaching / working in DH without institutional support.
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Y’all. I have my first fully functional multispectral imaging system set up here at
@UCCS
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The house I put an offer in on today ( I won’t get it. The real estate market is just a fun joke, kids. It’s not real) has a backyard with a fenced in dog run in it.
It would be too weird to put my cat in the dog run.... right?!?!
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one kzoo presentation done. one class completely graded. One class to go. one paper to go.
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When your friend sends you an early version of the software they are working on....
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being a first year professor is slowly realizing that I have acquired every single one of my advisor's habits that drove me insane for the last 6 years of my life
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Please enjoy this photo of Gertrude last night- after she tried to drink my beer
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Look I spend a lot of time staring at medieval maps, but we really need to talk about the Hereford Map. What happened here?
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I have my first meeting as a professor with one of my own students about “my experiences doing a PhD” and what the process looks like.
Any thoughts on what to say to someone besides WELL THAT IS A CHOICE?
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I bought a new house, and I am working on filling it with my friends' art. So basically its like the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum - but for people I drank too much wine with in Chicago circa 2013.
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Well. After my phd advisor has appeared on two different documentaries about Atlantis, he is now going on the history channel to continue talking about insane things.
I can’t wait for this stage of my career
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Wellllllll…. I’m going to serve on my first PhD exam committe.
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There is an apparently an old Irish term for “a man who follows his wife’s buttocks across a boundary (of a kingdom” which is the most spectacular way to describe a man who move’s to his wife’s native land. I am using this term from now on
#medievaltwitter
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Me trying to ignore my family and read for fun while at my parents house, yelling back at them “some parents want their kids to read”
My dad “…. You have a PhD in English. I think we’ve achieved that goal”
Ah yes, fair point.
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90% of the advice I get for writing my dissertation is the exact same advice I give my freshman writing students.
So far gems include:
- read this outloud to yourself
- make sure you integrate your argument throughout your paper
I have literally said these things in class
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If I bring a book to the bar, it is cause I am in a mood where I don't like anyone else either.
so that seems fair.
Please know, if you’re someone who brings a book to the bar… nobody likes you
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ok since kzoo is cancelled, and we all live on zoom any way. Can we have a giant medievalist zoom meet up in may then? You can even drink wine nicer than franzia - if you must.
#medievaltwitter
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I DID A COMPUTER THING! AND IT WORKED!
(I mean a new computer thing. I know I teach DH etc. This is a new computer thing. That was hard. The world is a shit show guys - be excited about a thing with me)
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Will Noel literally pioneered my field. No part of MSI would exist today without him.
He also taught my Rare Book School class. He showed up every morning looking respectable &as the day went on his hair became disheveled, his shirt became untucked,& he was smoking outside.
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Will Noel was everything that everyone is saying: brilliant, visionary, innovative, funny...
I want to add that he was also, often, especially and unexpectedly kind.
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There was a faculty wide email that went out to my entire university this past weekend which included the fantastic line "I outsource retribution to God".
So that is how I will be signing all of my emails from now on.
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As an undergrad I thought all my professors were super adults who were all brilliant and had their shit together. I was thinking about this today, as I lay on my office floor listening to music. It is possible that being a professor is just college for "grown-ups"
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I teach my first intro to DH class of the semester.
In which apparently I try to define digital humanities.
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After many years of research & MSI recovery, after many conference talks, a dissertation, & an extremely fortunate collaboration with
@hgwacha
We have finally finished the digital critical edition of the Vercelli Mappa Mundi.
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Hiring a DH medievalist and then asking them to teach a theory class. Uhhh this theory is gonna look a little different this year
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I worked till 11 pm last night so I could enjoy a weekend day without worrying about work.
And now. I am too tired and don’t want to move.
Academia in your 30s. What a time.
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I would like audible for academic books so I can listen to texts while doing other things
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I am sorry I last sent you an email 3 months ago, but here is me picking up and acting like no time at all has passed.
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My strangely, truly unexpectedly, slightly magical ability to avoid Covid is finally at an end. It was a good run, magical Covid avoiding ability.
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as a medievalist, I find a large amount of enjoyment in seeing a monk hiking this morning in Colorado in full monk regalia.
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I understand why Kzoo and leeds have to be online this year, but I DEEPLY miss seeing my colleagues and friends in person
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An outside scholar reached out to me to see if they could work directly with one of the undergraduates in our lab - as she was doing such a fantastic job processing multispectral images for them. I am so insanely proud of her. If this is what advising is like - I am here for it
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