In January 2025 I presented on a panel called "Alt-Text, Alt-Image: Multimodal Scholarship" at the annual Modern Language Association conference. My talk wasn't so much about multimodal scholarship, but it did take the Alt Text part of the title quite literally. Here's that talk, along with key slides. I want to talk today about alt… Continue reading The Ghosts of ClipartFlash Fiction, Alt Text, and Steganographic Narrative