Job Announcements, News

Job: Asst. Professor – Technology, Media, and Persuasion

From the ad: The Department of Communication (http://communication.ucsd.edu/) within the Division of Social Sciences at the University of California, San Diego is seeking to make an appointment at the Assistant Professor level, to begin Fall, 2018 in the following area: Critical Studies of Technology, Media, and Persuasion. Candidates must have a PhD and an active and […]

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Job: Lecturer, Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, Loyola University Chicago

From the ad: Loyola University Chicago, College of Arts and Sciences, Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities invite applications for a full-time, renewable, three-year Lecturer position in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, beginning August 13, 2018 for academic year 2018-2019. The Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities is home to a variety of […]

News, Resources

Resource: 2,000+ Early Modern Paintings Now Free Online

From the post: Georges Seurat, Henri Rousseau, Giorgio de Chirico, Auguste Renoir, Vincent Van Gogh — all of us associate these names with great innovations in painting, but how many of us have had the opportunity to look long and close enough at their work to understand those innovations? To feel them, in other words, […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: The Digital Dissertation – History, Theory, Practice

From the CFP: How do these “new paradigms” play out in the context of the dissertation?  While digital dissertations have been around for twenty years or more, the precise processes by which they are defined, created and defended remain something of a mystery. Is an interactive pdf significantly different than its paper-based counterpart? What specific […]

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Job: Faculty Position in Digital Humanities Computing, University of Oklahoma

From the ad: The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma seeks an innovative scholar in digital humanities/humanities computing for an open rank, tenured/tenure track faculty position. This search is part of a cluster hire in the new Data Scholarship Program (DSP)… The incumbent is expected to become a leader within a vibrant […]

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Job: Associate or Full Professor, Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities, Michigan State University

From the ad: The Department of English at Michigan State University invites applications for a scholar, at the level of Associate or Full Professor, whose work connects literary studies and the digital humanities to critical diversity. This position is part of the College’s Critical Diversity in a Digital Age initiative, which will facilitate research programs, […]

News, Resources

Resource: Data Packages for DH Beginners

From the resource: I’ve written about this before: working in groups, my students are assigned a dataset at the beginning of the quarter. They learn how to work with it as the quarter progresses, doing a lot of secondary contextual research, interviewing an expert about it, manipulating the data, and finally building a website that […]

News, Reports

Report: Recap of Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities Symposium

From the report: RMDH featured an all-star cast of Digital Humanities speakers, including opening and closing keynotes by Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson and Dr. P. Gabrielle Foreman respectively, remarks from Dr. Marcia Chatelain, and an artist talk with Pamela Z. Each of these amazing women left participants with remarkable insights. Professor Johnson incorporated music, videos, […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Critical Digital Praxis in Wikipedia – The Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon

Wikipedia’s gender gap, which results in problems of representation attributed to the lack of women and non-male editors participating in the encylopedia’s production, is by now well-known and well-documented. A groundbreaking survey conducted in 2011, conducted by the Wikimedia Foundation, found that less than 10% of Wikipedia editors identify as women, and less than 1% […]

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Job: Assistant Professor, European History (Medieval) & Digital Humanities, University of South Florida

From the ad: The History Department of the University of South Florida seeks qualified candidates to research and teach European History (Medieval preferred), and Digital Humanities. This position is a 9 month, tenure earning, permanent position. Salary negotiable… Candidates should have exceptional research promise and demonstrable success in teaching university undergraduate courses in European History (Medieval preferred) […]