Hacking the Humanities

Hacking the Humanities

Elias Muhanna, an assistant professor of comparative literature at Brown University, describes an assignment based on Pliny the Elder's "Natural History." After reading the assignment and reëvaluating the choices I’d…
Growing Games

Growing Games

by Alenda Chang Years ago, I started an academic blog while in the thick of researching and writing a dissertation chapter on farm games, games made popular by Zynga’s bucolic…