This Friday, May 29, at 1:30 p.m., University of Notre Dame digital initiatives librarian Eric Lease Morgan will lead a hands-on workshop on text mining for the humanities in the Scholar’s Lab. Those interested in attending may RSVP here. See below for more information.
This Friday, May 8, the DePaul English department‘s sixth annual English spring conference will take place in Arts & Letters Hall from noon to 8 p.m. More than forty MAE, MAWP, and undergraduate students will present their academic and creative work. The conference will also include a digital humanities workshop led by alumna Amanda Licastro, a career panel featuring recent graduates, and a keynote address by author Crystal Chan. Refreshments will be available throughout the day, and a reception will conclude the day’s events. Friends and family are more than welcome to attend this celebration of DePaul’s English department community. View… Read Article →
Digital Scholar Amanda Licastro, MAE ’08, teases out insights from student course blogs, online academic genealogies, and Twitter. BY HANA YOO Amanda Licastro has more than 1,000 Twitter followers. One week, she recalls, her tweets garnered more than 29,000 views. Generally, her Twitter account averages a couple thousand views per week. “I joke that I got into the graduate center through Twitter,” says Licastro, MAE ’08, currently a PhD student in English at CUNY Graduate Center and an instructional technology fellow at Macaulay Honors College. As a prospective graduate student, Licastro started following academics… Read Article →
Waffling about winter 2015 courses? See below for one possibility. ENG 471 (Hybrid) Bibliography and Literary Research Thursdays, 6 p.m.–9:15 p.m. Class meets face-to-face: 1/8, 1/22, 2/5, 2/26, and 3/12 Professor John Shanahan MAE: Core Requirement “Our investigation will cover theoretical topics in book and media history from the first decades of printing to the present. The course will include theoretical readings and hands-on activities with digital tools and methods. ” – Professor Shanahan View a more detailed course description here.
Join Georgetown’s Daniel Shore for “Prosthetic Formalism in the Digital Archive,” a lecture and workshop on digital methods for historical literary analysis. Professor Shore studies the literature of the Renaissance, with a special focus on the works of John Milton. He is the author of Milton and the Art of Rhetoric (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Shore is currently at work on a second book project, Cyberformalism (under contract with Johns Hopkins), which explores how searchable digital archives like Google Books, EEBO, and ECCO allow us to study the history of linguistic forms.
Digital Humanities, or “DH,” is the name for a set of computer-based tools and methods used by people in the humanities. Digital Humanities work is all around us, from large searchable databases to interactive and mobile storytelling apps; from innovative visualization methods for art history and anthropology to new collaborative platforms for research and teaching.The Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate program teaches the digital tools and methods that are increasingly important for students in every field of study. In the certificate program you will develop hands-on experience with these powerful tools and participate in projects including… Read Article →
REMINDER: in order for the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences to verify the completion of academic requirements, students must apply for degree conferral (graduation) in advance to have a degree posted and to receive a diploma. If you plan on graduating in June of 2013, the deadline to apply for degree conferral as well as the Commencement ceremony is this Friday, February 1st. Applications for degree conferral and Commencement are both done online. Please visit the English Graduate Student Resource Page for links to the applications for both degree conferral and Commencement, as well… Read Article →
Winter quarter may seem ages away, especially to those of us preoccupied with finals, but the DePaul Humanities Center is pleased to announce to the DePaul and Chicago communities to their Winter 2013 Events, featuring selections from three current series: New Voices in the Humanities, Nostalgia and the Age of Enlightenment, and Digital Humanities. This quarter the DePaul Humanities Center’s events will: Welcome two acclaimed authors, who will read from just-published works of fiction, including DePaul English professor Christine Sneed, reading from her forthcoming novel, Little Known Facts. Offer two forays into Nostalgia and the… Read Article →
Thank you to everyone who came out to One Book One Chicago History of Reading program last week and made it a success. Don’t forget, there’s one more OBOC program at DePaul this season, and it’s taking place this week: The Book as Object Wednesday, October 10, 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus John T. Richardson Library, Room 300 2350 N. Kenmore Avenue A book exists as more than just a vessel for the written word—it’s an artwork, a collectible and, of course, a target for thieves. Join librarian Scott Walter and artist Matthew… Read Article →