Failing Gloriously and Other Essays

Authors

Shawn Graham

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Please, you gotta help me. I’ve nuked the university.

Failing Gloriously and Other Essays documents Shawn Graham’s odyssey through the digital humanities and digital archaeology against the backdrop of the 21st-century university. At turns hilarious, depressing, and inspiring, Graham’s book presents a contemporary take on the academic memoir, but rather than celebrating the victories, he reflects on the failures and considers their impact on his intellectual and professional development. These aren’t heroic tales of overcoming odds or paeans to failure as evidence for a macho willingness to take risks. They’re honest lessons laced with a genuine humility that encourages us to think about making it safer for ourselves and others to fail.

A foreword from Eric Kansa and an afterword by Neha Gupta engage the lessons of Failing Gloriously and consider the role of failure in digital archaeology, the humanities, and social sciences.

ISBN

978-1-7328410-6-2

DOI

10.31356/dpb015

Publication Date

2019

Publisher

The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota

City

Grand Forks, ND

Keywords

Archaeology, Digital Archaeology, Digital Humanities, Higher Education; American essays--21st century, College students--United States--Forecasting, College students--United States--Conduct of life, College students--United States--Psychological aspects, College students--Employment--United States, Career development--United States--21st century.

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Recommended Citation

Graham, Shawn, "Failing Gloriously and Other Essays" (2019). Digital Press Books. 15.
https://commons.und.edu/press-books/15

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