Can scholarship show as well as tell? Can it engage new sensory and emotional registers? Might we present our evidence in livelier formats or embed an analysis within a dataset? How might scholars better utilize the rich variety of digital materials now available? Can we imagine new human and technological infrastructures for scholarly publishing? This talk will engage such questions through an exploration of two recent experiments in scholarly communication.

Tara McPherson is associate professor of gender and critical studies at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts and co-director of USC’s Center for Transformative Scholarship.