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Gay For Play: Theorizing Lgbtq Characters In Game Studies, Marc A. Ouellette

English Faculty Publications

Despite, and perhaps because of, popular press reactions to stereotypical depictions of beefy boys and busty babes in video games, the realm of gender, sex, and sexuality remains a lacuna in the emerging field of game studies. Of particular interest is the notion of performance and the ways this impacts both on gender and on game play. The combination might be expected to offer a very interesting way of approaching LGBTQ characters in digital games, especially given the recent inclusion of such characters in some popular and well-studied game franchises, including Grand Theft Auto (Rockstar 1997-present), Jade Empire (BioWare 2005-08) …

Coptic Scriptorium, Caroline T. Schroeder, Amir Zeldes

Department of Religious Studies Faculty Digital Projects

Coptic SCRIPTORIUM is a platform for interdisciplinary and computational research in texts in the Coptic language, particularly the Sahidic dialect. As an open-source, open-access initiative, our technologies and corpus facilitate a collaborative environment for digital research for all scholars working in Coptic. We provide:

• tools to process Coptic texts
• a searchable, richly-annotated corpus of texts using the ANNIS search and visualization architecture
• visualizations of Coptic texts
• a collaborative platform for scholars to use and contribute to the project research results generated from the tools and corpus

Coptic SCRIPTORIUM is a collaborative, digital project created by Caroline T. Schroeder (University of …

December 14, 2012: Jeffrey Masten History Of The Book Lecture @ Newberry (1/11/13), Department Of English

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December 13, 2012: Premodern Foucault At The Newberry, Department Of English

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December 9, 2012: Brimhall Wins Nea Award, Department Of English

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December 1, 2012: Gwen Frostic Reading Series: Fiction Writer Emma Straub, Department Of English

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November 21, 2012: Devoney Looser Visiting Lecture, Thurs., 11/29, Department Of English

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November 17, 2012: Cfp: Essay Collection On Heroines: Images Of Women In Literature & Pop Culture, Department Of English

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November 15, 2012: Sigma Tau Delta To Hold 13th Induction On December 1, Department Of English

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November 12, 2012: Fall 2012 Gwen Frostic Reading Series: Alumni Reading, Department Of English

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When The Virtual Meets The Real: An Assessment Of The Benefits And "Costs" Of Open Access Texts For First Year Writing Courses At Cuny, Johannah Rodgers

Publications and Research

An assessment of the advantages, drawbacks, and costs of Open Access / OER texts for First Year Writing courses at CUNY.

November 10, 2012: Cfp: Memes In Visual Culture (Jan.15, 2013), Department Of English

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November 8, 2012: Grace Tiffany To Help Edit Cymbeline, Department Of English

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November 4, 2012: Gwen Frostic Reading Series: Playwright Julie Jensen, Department Of English

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November 3, 2012: Grad Student Fellowship Opportunity In 17th/18th Century Studies, Department Of English

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October 30, 2012: Praise For Special Issue Of Comparative Drama, Department Of English

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October 29, 2012: Special Issue Of Comparative Drama, Department Of English

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October 12, 2012: Ania Loomba/Comparative Drama Distinguished Lecture/Nov. 1, Department Of English

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October 6, 2012: Newberry Grad Student Conference Cfp (10/15 Deadline), Department Of English

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September 30, 2012: Nate Powell, Eisner Award Winner, Gives Talk At Wmu On October 4, 2012, Department Of English

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