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This chapter proposes a new model for higher education where digital humanities are framed as a form of hybrid education through which hybridized learning spaces can offer new modes of education. Through its presented framework and two cases this chapter points towards the development of practice for hybrid digital humanities education in, with and for the public. This is done by connecting the fields of hybrid education and digital humanities to create a deeper integration of higher education, society and the world into one another. The cases of #dariahTeach and IGNITE exemplify ways of opening up digital humanities education for the public, practicing digital humanities education with the public and carrying out digital humanities education in the public.

Introduction to the special edition of Television & New Media.

This article argues that Netflix’s original series Orange is the New Black (2013-), based on Piper Kerman’s memoir (2010), uses postfeminist strategies to covertly promote prison reform and exercise a subtle critique of (female) mass incarceration while renegotiating the boundaries of the women in prison genre in a neoliberal context of media production. Similar to earlier examples of the women in prison genre, OITNB highlights relationships between women, in this instance relationships between a particularly diverse group of women, with a view to interrogating white, middle-class women’s identity through Piper Chapman’s character, who also serves as a foil for the show’s implied viewer, at least initially. OITNB inhabits the tensions associated both with the women in prison genre and postfeminism, tensions manifesting themselves in titillating content and Netflix’s aggressive marketing campaigns, which appropriate women’s prison experiences as a life-style choice rather than focusing on in-depth analyses of the root causes of incarceration. Yet, the series has the potential to mobilize social awareness and activist sensibilities amongst its target audience, in a political and media environment where the individual and social cost of mass incarceration is increasingly recognized as untenable. Building on theories of postfeminism and recent work on the women in prison genre in feminist media, film and cultural studies, and by analyzing the show’s self-reflexive strategies and its exploration of Piper’s perspective, I suggest that the series affords useful opportunities for assessing the effectiveness of (post)feminism’s tactics as an ally in the fight against social inequalities, media (mis-)representation and mass imprisonment specifically.

In this lively study of the development and transformation of voices of female offenders in nineteenth-century England, Anne Schwan analyzes a range of colorful sources, including crime broadsides, reform literature, prisoners' own writings about imprisonment and courtroom politics, and conventional literary texts, such as Adam Bede and The Moonstone. Not only does Schwan demonstrate strategies for interpreting ambivalent and often contradictory texts, she also provides a carefully historicized approach to the work of feminist recovery. Crossing class lines, genre boundaries, and gender roles in the effort to trace prisoners, authors, and female communities (imagined or real), Schwan brings new insight to what it means to locate feminist (or protofeminist) details, arguments, and politics. In this case, she tracks the emergence of a contested, and often contradictory, feminist consciousness, through the prism of nineteenth-century penal debates. The historical discussion is framed by reflections on contemporary debates about prisoner perspectives to illuminate continuities and differences. Convict Voices offers a sophisticated approach to interpretive questions of gender, genre, and discourse in the representation of female convicts and their voices and viewpoints.

No abstract available. Item is a review of the following journal article - Cristina Hanganu-Bresch and Carol Berkenkotter, “Narrative Survival: Personal and Institutional Accounts of Asylum Confinement.” Literature and Medicine 30.1 (2012): 12-41.