ABSTRACT

In this chapter, the author explores place as dynamic sites of ever-resonate, palimpsestic past histories that remain present in the works that one read, the cultural movements study, the poetry readings one attend, and the streets one they walk. He begins the discussion with readings from Henri Lefebvre's "Social Space" and Michel de Certeau's "Walking in the City" to ignite thinking about place as constituted by social relations and practices. He then focuses on, attention specifically on how literary practices may make, or produce, a space. The goal is to foreground a spatial literary approach using digital humanities technology. Through doing this activity, historical context becomes a located, geographic-political context, and opens our analysis to exciting interpretive possibilities. The author practices an intersectional feminist pedagogy that affirms the constitutive social identities of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity and ability and their significance in academic work.