The Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame are recruiting an American History/Digital Humanities Librarian. View job excerpt here.
The official description of today’s panel, “Literary texts and the library in the digital age,” reads as follows: Digital technologies are opening up new possibilities for the investigation of literary and historic texts. They are also changing library spaces and reconfiguring relationships between librarians and researchers. This program investigates new roles for European and American…
….“Close reading” is not a method per se. Rather, it’s an attitude, I think, where “close” actually means “closely,” implying an extra degree of care, attention to detail, expertise, etc. When we ask someone “to pay close attention” to something, we’re not asking them to invade our personal space; we use it as an intensifier,…
Yesterday, my colleagues and I at RRCHNM launched a great new public history site, Histories of the National Mall, mallhistory.org. It is built in Omeka with a beautiful responsive design that displays on a phone, tablet, or laptop. (Read full announcement on the RRCHNM blog.) We have been thrilled with the positive response we have…
The College of Environment and Design and the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia seek to fill a tenure‐track faculty position in Digital Humanities with specialties in Historic Preservation, Public History, Cultural Landscapes, and/or Heritage Tourism at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning August 2014. Read Full Posting Here.
The College of Creative Arts and Communication and the Dana School of Music are excited to host the inaugural North American Conference on Video Game Music, a first-of-its-kind conference on this side of the Atlantic, on January 18 and 19, 2014. See Full Announcement Here.
November 14, 2013 Over the past four years, Digital Humanities Now (DHNow) has used a variety of approaches to aggregating, reviewing, selecting, and disseminating scholarly content from the open web. Originally populated with content from Twitter chosen by an algorithm and automatically-published on the website, since 2011 the content for DHNow has been selected and…
Over the past four years, Digital Humanities Now (DHNow) has used a variety of approaches to aggregating, reviewing, selecting, and disseminating scholarly content from the open web. Originally populated with content from Twitter chosen by an algorithm and automatically-published on the website, since 2011 the content for DHNow has been selected and prepared by an…
Apply for 2014-2015 Distinguished Fellowships at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. This is open not only to academics (with Ph.D., any level) but also to people doing Digital Humanities related work (programming, visualization, journalism, etc.) Note: Deadline for applications was extended November 13. The Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) of the Graduate Center,…
Digital Humanites Now has had a facelift! In honor of DHNow’s fourth anniversary, PressForward graduate research assistant Sasha Hoffman has redesigned our website to improve readability and provide more information about our processes. To highlight scholarship surfaced by DHNow, the five most recent Editors’ Choice selections are now featured first on the home page. The…