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Chair of Film & Media Studies at Dartmouth, does data & digital humanities things, edits #ReviewsInDH, rides horses 🐴 https://roopikarisam.com
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Please stop calling your data set a database challenge. Like throwing an ice bucket over your head but all you have to do is call it a data set.

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My favorite conspiracy theory is that The Scorpions were a CIA front, not the least of which because every time I bring it up, my beloved asks what they could possibly gain from “Rock You Like a Hurricane.” This skeet brought to you by Apple Music serving “Wind of Change” on my way to work.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

New academic talk genre: Google alerts says someone will be “introducing” my work in my words (to an audience that would already know). Not plagiarism, just name checking and describing me. What on earth? 😳

submitted 16 hours ago • 10 comments

An instructive lesson… out of curiosity, I took a section of a chapter written 100% by me and ran it through 7 different AI detectors. Five of them, all free, said 100% of text was by a human. Two said 91% & 73% were by AI and offered to sell me a service to give me details and to “humanize” it. 🧐

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Wrapping it up with the Comp Lit MA students' thesis presentations -- so great to see how far the students I taught in the fall have come!

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It's awesome to have a day at work with actual intellectual enrichment, not just administrivia. Today, I attended part of a symposium on Intermedial Soundings and an excellent talk by DesirĂŠe Garcia on her book The Dressing Room and videographic criticism. The (real) life of the mind, y'all.

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Five and a half more days of work over the next three weeks and then it's SUMMER! My first order of business is a trip to a beachside cottage in Maine with a friend the first week in June, where we will write all the things. (Will still be chairing but it's fairly painless from June to September.)

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Preordered this last week! So excited for it!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Also Greek, Arabic, Polish, and Chinese, not to mention a homily about love, diversity, economic exploitation, and shade for autocrats.

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I’m a big fan of the multilingual nature of Pope Leo XIV’s installation mass. Latin! Spanish! Italian! English!

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

After three days of revising chapters 1 and 2, I think I have actually gotten somewhere.

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You know who wouldn’t have been doing this? That other candidate people didn’t vote for because she supposedly wouldn’t have been any different 🤨

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

“Sometimes I think about how put together people in the world think you are, and then I think about all the stuff piled on the dining table and realize that I know the truth.” -my beloved

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

He looks innocent but he took off running while I was riding him, I freaked out (which has never happened to me on horseback before) and lost my stirrups, and my trainer had to shout, “You have hands! Use them!” at me three times before I got my act together to slow him down. 🤠

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Yesterday was the first day in 6 weeks that I've been able to spend a WHOLE day just on my book. (Chair life in spring is something.) Today, I get to write AND ride my horse. Oh happy day.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

I feel seen

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Trust me, you need this kind of friend in your life.

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The most lovely thing a friend did for me today was to observe that we think about history in similar ways and to then describe it — his insight on a particular way of thinking was exactly what I needed to tackle the book revisions on my plate right now.

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Start here for my morning rage about higher ed leaders who are quick to assign blame to us and our institutions, rather than seeing the larger forces at play historically and at present. (Now without the apoplectic grammar of the first skeet!)

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments