Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Creating Mike Sterling for the #GenLit Project

For the past year and a half, Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing has been providing editorial and technical support to the Generative Literature Project, which is producing a crowdsourced, gamified digital novel about a murder. Hybrid Pedagogy is publishing a series of weekly updates and reflections about the project, collaboratively authored by several of the student and […]

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Editors’ Choice: Reproducing the Academy: Librarians and the Question of Service in the Digital Humanities

The following is a version of the talk I gave as part of a panel at ALA sponsored by the Women and Gender Studies Section of ACRL and organized by Heather Tompkins (Carleton College). The title of the panel was “Digital Humanities and Libraries: Power and Privilege, Practice and Theory,” and included Jane Nichols, Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez, and Megan […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: ICAT Immersive Environment Specialist

From the ad: The ICAT Immersive Environment Specialist (IES) works in a team setting with researchers from science, engineering, education and the arts to produce content for use in a variety of virtual and augmented reality applications. The primary role of the IES is to provide support to Virginia Tech researchers, programmers, producers and marketing […]

News, Resources

Resource: Handlist of Greek Manuscripts in the British Library

From the announcement: The completion of the third phase of the Greek Manuscripts Digitisation Project is as good a time as any to release to this world a handy spreadsheet containing details of the Greek manuscripts held by the British Library. The spreadsheet includes a brief description of the content and links to Digitised Manuscripts […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Specialist, Computer Research

From the announcement: This person is responsible for, or will assist with, supporting the College of Arts & Humanities’ Center for Humanities & Digital Research (CHDR) digital infra-structure along with various CHDR initiatives, including the conceptualization, design, and implementation of faculty digital humanities (DH) projects; the submission of federal and other grants to support new […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Price Digital Humanities Lab Postdoc

From the announcement: The Price Lab invites applications for the 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities. One award is available to an untenured scholar in the humanities whose PhD must have been received between December 2007 and December 2015. The DH Fellow is required to spend the nine-month academic year (September 2016 […]

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Editor’s Choice: Impact of Social Sciences – The Historian’s Altmetrics: How can we measure the impact of people in the past?

How can historians measure the influence of intellectual contribution over time? Scraping from online catalogs and employing a range of digital humanities tools, Michelle Moravec looks at women’s liberation scholarship and explores the relationships between authors and essays. It is important to critically examine why certain contributions appear in our web searches and others do […]

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Editor’s Choice: The Digital Humanities Are Alive and Well and Blooming: Now What?

If the notion for the past decade in digital humanities investment has been to let a thousand flowers bloom, it seems to have worked. Digital creation is no longer just the realm of specialists, IT developers, and librarians who manage collections. Today, with digital humanities (DH) hitting its stride, historians, philosophers, and poets not only […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: What Do Comparative Literature and Digital Humanities Have To Say To Each Other?: A Critical Approach

From the CFP: Whatever the reason, Comparative literature as a field of inquiry has not had as much engagement with Digital Humanities as some other humanities disciplines recently have. However, a fertile ground may well exist for a deep critical engagement of Comparative Literature with Digital Humanities — given, on the one hand, the interdisciplinary […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Humanities Programmer at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities

From the announcement: This position would work with and direct students with a programming background, and occasionally gets pulled in to teach sessions or give workshops on aspects of programming for digital humanities courses, (un)conferences, and workshop series. The atmosphere is one of collaboration and learning.   Source: We are hiring a Digital Humanities Programmer!