Maurice
April 20th 2021I was halfway through making the fourth peanut butter and jelly sandwich for today's kid lunch bags when my phone chirped at me. I saw the email subject "Maurice Manning". I'm not even sure what I assumed in the split-second before I read it... read more
What's a 'word': Multilingual DH and the English Default
October 15th 2020The following was my presentation at the McGill DH Spectrums of DH series. The images were displayed as Zoom backgrounds during the talk. Thanks so much for the introduction, Kate. So, yes, I’m Quinn Dombrowski... read more
'It Doesn't Work': Failure and DH Tools
July 21st 2020The following are my remarks for the DH 2020 "Tool Criticism 3.0" workshop hosted by the Digital Literary Stylistics SIG. If you'd like to enjoy it in video form (it's fast-paced and colorful and fairly fun for this kind of talk)... read more
Rolling the Dice on Project Management
June 6th 2020The following is a transcript of a video I put together for the DHSI 2020 project management workshop. I usually prefer text to video, myself, but this is a video worth experiencing, and one of my favorite things that I've been able to make since the start of the pandemic... read more
Remarks for 'DH Methods and Tools Gone Wrong: Discoveries, Failures & Advice for the Future'
May 28th 2020These were my 3-minute comments for a small-group discussion at the DARIAH VX Breakout session 4: DH Methods and Tools Gone Wrong: Discoveries, Failures & Advice for the Future on May 28, 2020. For the last year or so... read more
Pandemic, Parenting, Pedagogy
March 27th 2020“Turn it OFF!” protested my almost-2-year-old as I sat in the kitchen on Wednesday morning, on a Zoom call with DARIAH folks from across Europe and the US. I plied her with a snack, but ultimately she prevailed when... read more
Working conditions
March 21st 2020I’m writing this on a Saturday. I mention this not out of academic work-ethic virtue-signaling, but because it’s connected to the a sense of time unraveling, even over the course of a single week under the shelter-in-place mandate in the Bay Area... read more
The Stakes of Multilingual DH in the United States
March 13th 2020As I write this, universities worldwide are shutting down in-person classes (or instruction altogether) and urging undergraduate students to leave. For the moment, libraries are typically remaining open... read more
Sorry for all the Drupal: Reflections on the 3rd anniversary of 'Drupal for Humanists'
November 8th 2019When I finished writing Drupal for Humanists on July 15, 2015, my Magic-the-Gathering-playing, arithmetic-doing kindergartener was a barely-verbal toddler. The night I finished the manuscript was memorable in more ways than one... read more
On the future of Slavic DH in the United States
July 12th 2019These were my comments framing the "Methodology as Community: Fostering Collaboration Beyond Scholarly Societies" panel at DH 2019 in Utrecht, with Peter Haslinger, Antonina Puchkovskaia, Seth Bernstein... read more