Job Announcements, News

Job Announcement: Associate Professor/Professor in Digital Humanities at Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH)

Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) is currently recruiting for an Associate Professor/Professor in Digital Humanities from January 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.The appointment may be made at either Associate Professor (Grade 10) or Professor (Grade 11) level. Applications are welcome at both of these levels, and the eventual grade of appointment will be commensurate […]

News, Reports

Report: Constellate: An Experiment and Retrospective

When we set out in 2019 to build Constellate, our goal was to create a sustainable platform that would provide text analysis access to content in JSTOR and Portico. By the time we sunset in 2025, that had transformed into making the power of computational analysis accessible to any curious mind, whether they were a […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

Conference: Frances E. W. Harper 200 – Looking Back, Moving Forward, 1825–2025 – Colored Conventions Project

How do we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-2025), the most prolific African American writer of the nineteenth century? As part of its year-long programming, the Center for Black Digital Research/#DigBlk, joined by Penn State’s Africana Research Center, will convene an in-person symposium on the week of her […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Historic Maps, New Coordinates

In the digital age, historical maps hold a wealth of information, but unlocking their full potential for geospatial analysis and historic research often requires labor-intensive georeferencing. An innovative project the University of Texas Libraries is evolving this process through the power of machine learning. See full post.

Job Announcements, News

Job Announcement: Assistant Professor in Critical Digital Studies/Practice at Macalester College

The Media and Cultural Studies Department at Macalester College seeks candidates for a position in Critical Digital Studies/Practice at the rank of Assistant Professor (tenure track). We are open to a wide array of specializations within critical digital studies, including, but not limited to, the areas of gaming, interactive and immersive media such as VR […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: A Franken-Book-of-Hours: From Physical to Digital and Back Again – Dot Porter Digital

Between 2019 and 2022, I also worked on a project called Books of Hours as Transformative Works. If you’re not familiar with the term “transformative work,” it comes out of fandom studies—think of fan fiction or fan art—where people respond emotionally and creatively to something they love. I wanted to apply this framework to Books […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Introducing Hugo-Bibliography

Hugo-Bibliography is a new Hugo plug-in designed to make adding citations into Hugo projects much easier. It can be added as a theme to a Hugo website to generate bibliography pages using the provided shortcodes. At this point, bibliography data needs to be available in CSL-JSON format (that for example can be exported from Zotero). […]