F160.
Cripping and Digitizing: (Re)Imagining the Poetry e-book
Friday, March 10, 2023
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
The emergence of e-book formats creates an opportunity to accessibly digitize and archive poetry. However, e-books use “reflowable” text to adjust to page widths, fonts, colors, and related readability modifications. For dis/abled (or crip) readers, this increases access and introduces new problems that our panel addresses: how do we accessibly digitize poetry so that is not just "readable" but fully experienced? What forms of pedagogical and social translation does this work make possible?
Participants
C.R. Grimmer (her/them) is a poet, scholar, and teacher at the UW in Seattle. They are author of The Lyme Letters (Texas Tech University Press), and host The Poetry Vlog (TPV) (Mellon Foundation Public Scholarship YouTube & podcast project). Poems can be found or are forthcoming in Poetry, Fence, and others.
Molly E. Ubbesen, PhD, (she/they) is assistant professor and director of writing at University of Minnesota Rochester. She applies critical disability studies to writing studies to support more accessible and effective teaching and learning.
Dr. Katherine "Kate" Deibel is currently the systems librarian at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. As an ardent advocate for usable and accessible technologies, she works and educates to ensure that library technologies are effective tools for both library patrons and staff.
Dene Grigar is professor and director of creative media & digital culture at WSU Vancouver who works in born-digital literature, digital preservation, and curation. She has created sixteen works of media art, seventy-six scholarly books and articles, and twenty-two exhibitions. She is also the managing director of ELO's The NEXT.
