Brian Croxall

Definitely haven’t done one so far. It’s a topic I remain deeply and personally invested in…

But what meant the most was when I was severely underemployed in 2009, @brettbobley.bsky.social took the time to talk with me about the process of applying to jobs at the NEH. We had never met apart from Twitter and he chatted on the phone. That meant so much to a broke PhD. #ThanksBrett

A huge thanks to @brettbobley.bsky.social who is retiring from NEH ODH. A consummate public servant who is always a joy to see arriving at DH events in his chopper. I owe you a Diet Coke every day from here on out. #ThanksBrett

I consider this one of the most important donations I can make. To be clear, the Paving the Way fund supports the legal expenses.

I donated to the Paving the Way initiative to help with this critical lawsuit on behalf of the NEH. Think about joining me?

If your grant was terminated & you are an MLA member (or in a related discipline), please fill out our My NEH Grant Story form. Your story can help inform the actions we are taking to protect the NEH. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This is why I became a lifetime @modernlanguage.bsky.social member last year.

Maybe small orgs and large orgs could work together rather than taking aim at one another. The impulse to compete always undermines solidarity. Reach out rather than tearing down.

If you don't know what your org is doing right now to fight for you, maybe ask them rather than assuming they're not doing anything. Mine has been actively meeting with folks on the Hill and strategizing with other orgs and institutions about paths forward, even as they're facing funding cuts.

Y'all. I get that a small scholarly org can be nimble and take on a lot of quick, grassroots work. It's super important and exciting. But that should not encourage you to insult the hardworking professionals who are keeping large scholarly orgs moving in astonishingly difficult circumstances.

I’m 47, which is exactly right.

Read more about his work in Digital Humanities Quarterly: www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/11/1...

Inspired by the work of Kevin L Ferguson (www.gc.cuny.edu/people/kevin...), I've summed all currently available MCU films. I've only seen one of these.

Scholarship in Sound & Image Workshop on Videographic Criticism

Are you a film & media scholar who wants to learn how to make video essays? Applications for the two-week June 2025 workshop Scholarship in Sound & Image at Middlebury College in Vermont are now open. Come be a videocamper and spread the word!

Wanting to start a new project on the concept of happy endings in novels. If you've ever read anything on the topic, please send me references!

No More Nostalgia Concerts, Please The culture industry keeps getting better at monetizing the past — including the new ritual of musicians playing old albums, in full, onstage.

I feel seen.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/m...

And to top it all off, we just got notice that we received funding to start a fledgling game studies research group for 2025. Now I'm off to enter the lottery.

Why Play Games? A History and a (Self-)Justification This post was written by Brian Croxall, a Humanities Center faculty fellow.    This semester and with the support of the College of Humanities, my colleague Michael Call and I launched a new initiativ...

I wrote about my own history with video games earlier in the semester for our Humanities Center blog: humanitiescenter.byu.edu/why-play-gam.... Along the way I manage to talk about e-lit and other forms of ergodic literature.

From Tony Hawk Pro Skater to Minecraft, these humanities professors want students to study (and play) video games Humanities professors Michael Call and Brian Croxall have introduced a new video gaming initiative to BYU’s campus. With the support of the College of Humanities, students gather each Monday at 4:00 p...

This semester, my colleague and I started a weekly video game play/lecture series. University comms has decided to notice: news.byu.edu/intellect/th....

I worked on the Beckett Letters project for three years in grad school. When I came across this one, I saved it because it’s so perfect.

Congrats! Can’t wait to get a copy!

Because the problems in both of them can be solved with a simple conversation.

Why did the shoe enthusiast feel no excitement for the upcoming season?

He had a case of the Blahniks.
#thesearethejokes

Tonight my wife and I realized that the reason I’m skeptical about musicals is the same as why she’s incensed by Seinfeld.

Zotero 7 just dropped. I've been using the beta for several months and it's absolutely fantastic. And it restores an early feature of Zotero that went missing over a decade ago: the ability to annotate snapshots of web pages and add those annotations to your notes.

Read for free , good sir!

What We Teach When We Teach DH | Debates in the Digital Humanities Exploring how digital humanities (DH) is taught and what that reveals about the field, this book highlights how DH can transform learning across a vast array of curricular structures, institutions, an...

Absolutely thrilled that Diane Jakacki and my edited volume, *What We Teach When We Teach DH*, has just launched in its open-access version on the Debates on DH website.

dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/wha...

Thrilled the panel Diane Jakacki & I organized for #mla25 is accepted. Ever wish you hadn't missed the 2011 MLA DH panel? Come and see @kfitz1.bsky.social @alanyliu.bsky.social @laurenfklein.bsky.social @triproftri.bsky.social as well as Kenton Rambsy and Steve Ramsay dish about DH textbooks.

Remember blogs? Diane and I just wrote up a short history of What We Teach When We Teach DH. Stop by if you want a glance at the table of contents and a synopsis of every chapter.

Act now! Don't delay! #dhdebates