Job Announcements, News

Job: Asst. Prof. of English (Medieval Studies), James Madison University

From the ad: The Department of English at James Madison University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professorship in Medieval Studies, to begin in fall 2020. We are especially interested in candidates whose work engages digital humanities and/or the Global Middle Ages. Secondary fields may also include the environmental humanities, manuscript studies, and/or women’s, gender, […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Scholarship Librarian, Washington State University

From the ad: As part of a larger functional team, comprised of personnel from the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation, the Libraries Systems Office, and Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections at Washington State University, this position will provide leadership in the development, implementation, promotion, and assessment of digital scholarly initiatives. The Digital Scholarship Librarian […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Digital Humanities Quarterly Special Issue on Minimal Computing

From the CFP: This special issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly will bring together essays and case studies on the promises and limitations of minimal computing from historical, practical, and theoretical perspectives, as well as within the context of specific research projects and their environments. Minimal computing can be defined as any form of digital or […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Sorry for all the Drupal – Reflections on the 3rd anniversary of “Drupal for Humanists”

When I finished writing Drupal for Humanists on July 15, 2015, my Magic-the-Gathering-playing, arithmetic-doing kindergartener was a barely-verbal toddler. The night I finished the manuscript was memorable in more ways than one: I was four months pregnant with my second kid, and it was the first time I felt him kick. When I sent in that […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Postdoctoral Fellowship in US Latino Digital Humanities, Recovery

From the ad: The application period is now open for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH), a division of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage program (Recovery) at the University of Houston. The program is looking for a recent (less than 5 years) Ph.D. graduate with background expertise in US Latino […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Funding: Digital Pedagogy Lab 2020 Fellowships

From the funding opportunity: Digital Pedagogy Lab 2020 will take place July 27-31 on Auraria Campus in Denver, Colorado… The Lab has always relied upon the voices of its participants to guide the learning and discovery at the event. Key among those voices are our fellows. Each year, we earmark funds to provide fellowships to […]

News, Resources

Resource: Using Kraken to Train your own OCR Models

From the resource: Over the summer of 2019, inspired by the promising results in articles like Romanov et al. 2017, I set out to use the Kraken OCR software on a variety of texts. Kraken, see their website or their repository, is open-source command line software that is capable of reaching accuracy rates in the high nineties for Arabic and Persian printed text. Kraken is not equipped to handle every text – I recommend […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Senior Research Associate and Assoc. Director of the ARTFL Project, U of Chicago

From the ad: The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, in collaboration with the Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (generally known as the ARTFL Project) and the Textual Optics Lab, seeks a Senior Research Associate in Digital Humanities and Romance Languages and […]

News, Reports

Report: Presenting on Mediate at ACH

From the report: The Association for Computers in the Humanities (ACH) Conference took place at the Marriott City Center in Pittsburgh, PA, July 32-26, 2019. While this conference might seem out of scope for me–an undergraduate studying Psychology and Language, Media, & Communications–I was there to present on work I had done as a teaching […]

News, Resources

Resource: What is a Feminist Lab? (recordings)

About the resource: In April 2019, “What is a Feminist Lab?” Symposium was held at the University of Colorado Boulder and organized by Maya Livio, Lori Emerson, and Thea Lindquist. The event included a range of speakers from interdisciplinary research labs and explored ways in which intersectional feminist approaches can be integrated into labs and […]