Shawna Ross

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Modernism, digital humanities, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, Charlotte Brontë, & Sherlock Holmes @ Texas A&M. At work on *Modernism 1.0.* A toddler-having human.
Websitehttps://www.shawnaross.com
Bookhttps://sunypress.edu/Books/C/Charlotte-Bronte-at-the-Anthropocene
Google Scholarhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jOkA9UcAAAAJ
Pronounsshe, her, hers
Martin Paul Eve. Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History. – SHARP NEWS

It is becoming increasingly confusing to work out where to publish if you want to comply with your funders OA policy (or with your own principles).

This tool is very helpful

https://journalcheckertool.org

Journal Checker Tool: Check which publishing options are supported by your funder’s OA policy |

JCT enables researchers to check whether they can comply with their funders Plan S aligned OA policy based on the journal, the funder and the institution affiliated with the research to be published.

Didn’t think I’d get to write today, but knock on wood, I think it’s happening!
Another use of the rest of me that I’ve committed to: co-founding the Center for Humanities Communication (CHC): https://center-humanities-communication.org/. Can the humanities train & provide shared resources for “communicators” on the model of programs preparing professionals in “science communication”?
Several weeks ago, @shawnaross and I divided a cheese cube into eight smaller cheese cubes as an activity with our math-obsessed three-year-old. Now, as I subdivide 6 cheese cubes into 48 mini cheese cubes before the sun has risen, I'm thinking of Lovecraft's admonishment that "the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality."

Me: *looking in the mirror* alright, the last month has been really rough, but you've wrangled your todo list down to a manageable size and you have the whole day free. You've got this!

The free day in question:

Accidental Woolfism. @oncomouse told me we signed up to bring teddy grahams for the preschool’s Valentine’s Day party.
Reading one of the toddler's schmaltzier books, @shawnaross and I agree: allegory is truly the lowest form of wit.