The University of Sussex wishes to appoint a fixed-term (4-year) fellowship (Research Fellow) in Digital Humanities/Digital History. See the job ad here: Research Fellow in Digital Humanities/Digital History at University of Sussex
From the post: As well as providing tools to visualise the metadata, in bringing together detail on sender, recipient, place and date for over 150,000 letters for over twenty collections, Visual Correspondence provides a new way to explore the letters themselves. Where possible, links back to the original texts are provided. Also using data from…
This is a talk that I gave at the Harvard Purdue Data Management Symposium on June 17, 2015, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The audience was mostly librarians and other data-management professionals. I was the only humanities person on the program, so I wanted to talk about the ways that humanists think about data differently from people…
From the post: In my copious spare time I have hacked together a thing I’m calling the HathiTrust Research Center Workset Browser, a (fledgling) tool for doing “distant reading” against corpora from the HathiTrust. [1] The idea is to: 1) create, refine, or identify a HathiTrust Research Center workset of interest — your corpus, 2)…
Purdue University Libraries seek a Digital Humanities Specialist. See the full announcement.
Northeastern University is hiring a Dara Analytics/Visualization Specialist. See the full ad here.
This is a pre-print version of this article. The final, edited version will appear in the online edition of American Literary History 27.3 (August 2015)…The Viral Texts Project is an interdisciplinary and collaborative effort among the authors listed here, with contributions from project alumni Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Kevin Smith, and Peter Roby. In the first…
Registration is not open for THATCamp Prime 2015. See the full announcement here.
The Department of English at New York University seeks applications for a Faculty Fellow in Digital Humanities (DH) commencing September 1, 2015. Read the full advertisement here.
Many if not most contemporary historians would probably agree with the statement that “the typical mode of explanation used by historians [is] narrative.” (Roberts 2001) Storytelling, then, is not the difference between history and fiction. Instead, we could say, the scope of the story is what differentiates historical and fictional writing. For the past four months,…