Job Announcements, News

Job: TT Assistant Professor in Literature Specializing in Digital Humanities, Temple University

From the ad: The English Department at Temple University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in literature specializing in any method of digital humanities research, broadly conceived. The position is open to applicants in any literary field from the nineteenth century to the present, including global, British, and American literatures. Teaching responsibilities include a […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: TT Assistant Professor of Digital History of the Ancient Mediterranean, George Mason University

From the ad: Candidates for this position will be expected to maintain an active scholarly agenda in the field of digital ancient history. Candidates will have a 2/2 teaching load, and will teach undergraduate courses on Greek and Roman history and in digital history, as well other undergraduate and graduate courses in their areas of […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Terms of Service – Affective Labor and Alt-Ac Careers

From the CFP: We are looking for a collection of short essays (4000-4500 words) that critically engage the affective labor of being an alt-ac or staff inside or outside the academy. We are particularly interested in submissions from alt-acs who are POC, LGBTQIA, and/or disabled, as the intersection of gender, race, sexual orientation, and disability […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: The Tate Uses Wikipedia for Artist Biographies, and I’m OK With It

Recently, several folks on Twitter have noted their displeasure that the Tate appears to be linking to Wikipedia articles in lieu of authoring their own written biographies of artists represented in their collections. The @Tate is now copying and pasting artist biographies from Wikipedia for catalogs. Nothing against Wikipedia; but this is a misguided strategy […]

News, Resources

Resource: Rapid Response Research

From the resource: Rapid Response Research (RRR) projects are quickly deployed scholarly interventions in pressing political, social, and cultural crises. Together, teams of researchers, technologists, librarians, faculty, and students can pool their existing skills and knowledges to make swift and thoughtful contributions through digital scholarship in these times of crisis. The temporality of a rapid […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Initiatives Projects Librarian, University of Alberta

From the ad: The University of Alberta Libraries (UAL), with a long tradition of technological innovation and service excellence, seeks a dynamic and engaged professional to play a key role in the planning and execution of a growing program of digital library initiatives. Reporting to the Head, Library Publishing and Digital Production Services, and working […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in English (Quantitative Methods), Emory University

From the ad: The Department of English and the Institute for Quantitative Theory and Methods at Emory University invite applications for a tenured or tenure-track faculty member in English with a specialization in quantitative methods of literary analysis to begin fall 2019. Required: PhD by time of appointment. We seek an exceptional, active researcher in […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: ‘Making such bargain’: Transcribe Bentham and the quality and cost-effectiveness of crowdsourced transcription

We (Tim Causer, Kris Grint, Anna-Maria Sichani, and me!) have recently published an article in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities on the economics of crowdsourcing, reporting on the Transcribe Bentham project, which is formally published here: ‘Making such bargain’: Transcribe Bentham and the quality and cost-effectiveness of crowdsourced transcription. Alack, due to our own economic […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Open-Rank Tenure-Track Faculty (Four Positions), Syracuse University iSchool

From the ad: Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies (The iSchool, ischool.syr.edu) seeks scholars and leaders to fill four open-rank tenure-track faculty positions to start in Fall 2019. Successful candidates will have a productive program of research in an information-related field and be able to contribute to the development of students and courses in our […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Humanities Co-ordinator (Content), Swansea University

From the ad: The post holder will play a full and active role as a member of the Library Research Support. They will work pro-actively with researchers, special collections staff and relevant communities on campus to analyse digital humanities related requirements and encourage engagement with central Digital Humanities resource and support. They will be one […]