Riley’s thoughts: The discipline of English Language and Literature teaches students how to process language directly from the page, interpreting and concluding in their own minds. Rarely do we turn to technology to assist us with this. In our recent MAMM case study, however, we chose to change that, exploring the outputs of a digital … Read More
The MAMM team had a fantastic fall, with our data collection work bracketed by two amazing events. Alisa Palmer Visits In September, we welcomed Canadian director and frequent AMM collaborator Alisa Palmer to Brock’s downtown campus, where she led a workshop on Space and the Theatre. In working with team members, alongside Dramatic Arts students, … Read More
More Impressions of the Day – by Paige Baziuk and Renée Colucci MAMM Team members all had varying levels of familiarity with MacDonald’s work before joining the project. English Language and Literature Major, Dana Alrifai shared that she “learned about Ann-Marie MacDonald through Dr. Gordon in my first-year English course. Fall on Your Knees was … Read More
A Collage of Impressions from the Day – by Paige Baziuk and Renée Colucci Being able to speak with a living author about one’s research project is rare and asking the author for input while the project is still in its prototype stages is rarer still, thus why our group is incredibly grateful to have … Read More
Sloane and Riley were 2/3 of the archival team using Omeka, a digital open source library system, to catalogue Ann-Marie Macdonald’s research materials from her time writing The Way the Crow Flies. Below are their individual thoughts on the process, as well as some photo excerpts from AMM’s personal archive.
(This post continues from Part 2, “Process, process, process”) MAMM team dealing with messy… Ebru: As the person who built the tools – what are the things that stand out for you when you look back at them now? Neta: It’s interesting to see how even in the worklog, you can still see personality as … Read More
(This post continues from part 1, “A Conversation about Project Beginnings…“) E: Now, let’s talk about the process. Who are the teams? N: There are two – there’s one primary RA team and then an extra team – the Omeka team – because I got some money from the HRI (Humanities Research Institute) at Brock. … Read More
May 9th, 2024 Ebru Ustundag: Neta, when did you start working on Ann-Marie McDonald? Neta Gordon: Well, Ebru, I was starting my MA, and for my professional skills class, we had to do a PhD proposal. I didn’t have one, but I had just read Fall on Your Knees, which came out a few months … Read More
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