Digital technology has introduced new literacies into the humanities classroom. New ways of conceiving texts through the use of audio, video, and hypertext have changed what were once considered to be stable texts. Liz Bailey, Olin Bjork, and Jeff Howard will lead this roundtable discussion about the intersections of literature and digital media. They will also address how the CWRL classroom provides a unique space in which we can talk about such intersections. This roundtable will discuss ways of “mashing up” literature with digital technology: King Lear with hypertext, audio technologies with Paradise Lost and video game design with The Crying of Lot 49.

Please contact facilitator Matt Russell at mrrussell@mail.utexas.edu" if you have questions about or would like to attend this panel.


Most graduate students have a working teaching philosophy in mind when they prepare to go on the job market. However, at the beginning of graduate school, new teaching assistants and assistant instructors often find themselves struggling to find their teaching approach. New instructors who identify themselves as feminists often wonder how to be feminists in the classroom. In an effort to get graduate students thinking about these issues earlier in their careers, this roundtable will workshop a feminist pedagogy website for graduate student instructors at the University of Texas.

Taking a Closer Look

:: 2005 colloquium

Computer Writing and Research Lab
The University of Texas at Austin

November 5, 2005
10:00am - 12:30pm
Eastwoods Room (Student Union Building)

Projections: Writing, Media, Identity

:: 2004 colloquium

Computer Writing and Research Lab

Pedagogy and Professionalization in the Computer-Assisted Classroom

:: 2003 colloquium

Computer Writing and Research Lab
The University of Texas at Austin

February 27 and 28, 2003
Parlin 104

Please contact facilitator Woo Yeom at auden@mail.utexas.edu if you have questions about or are planning to attend this roundtable.


One of the most interesting outcomes of the Internet has been the creation of mediated social networks occupied by individuals of every imaginable race, creed, color, and national origin. The past thirty years have witnessed the evolution of diverse, highly specialized online social networks from simple text-only electronic bulletin boards, listserves and usenets, accelerating in the last few years with the creation of centrally administered, and often commercially driven, virtual neighborhoods, online communities, cyber-salons, cyber-commons, community networks. This diverse ecology of alternative identities and communities continues to be deciphered by those both in the humanities and social sciences in interesting ways. This roundtable hopes to contribute to the ongoing discourse as both researchers and instructors in the CWRL.

Reading and Writing Technologies

:: 2002 colloquium

Computer Writing and Research Lab
The University of Texas at Austin

Thursday, February 28th, 3:00-6:00 pm
Parlin 6

Friday, March 1st, 2:00-6:00 pm
Parlin 104

In the past, the CWRL colloquium has been held in the spring semester of each academic year to highlight the achievements and advancements of the lab. Past colloquia have focused on an array of topics, from reading and writing technologies to pedagogy and professionalization in the computer classroom.