This thesis uses ethology as a framework to examine Franz Marc’s paintings of animals. To perceive animals ethologically means acknowledging that animals feel, think, experience, and imagine the world. Ethology has come to include interpretive pursuits as well as traditional field studies, and as I show, Marc’s practice encompassed both asp…[Read more]

This project investigated the potential impact that Internet use is having on behavioural and cognitive abilities, in particular the effects that it may be having on; user memory and recall; concentration levels; perceptions of what it means to be ‘online’ and whether there has become a blurring of the boundaries between the ‘virtual’ and the ‘re…[Read more]

This paper discusses the use of and attitudes towards electronic resources by a select group of medieval scholars. A survey was sent to ninety-two medievalists selected from eight institutions of higher education with graduate offerings in medieval studies. The medievalists represent many different departments including English, History, Foreign…[Read more]

This article is divided into three sections: the first focuses on some analogies and historical parallels that shape digital technology, the hypertext and interactivity, such as the book and the printing press. My aim in the second section is to map the development of the creation of digital environments for archives, corpus, libraries and…[Read more]

This article aims to introduce the Spanish reader to the current debates in the English speaking community of Digital Humanities. Rather than trying to define the discipline in absolute terms the approach is broadly diachronic though some principles as interdisciplinarity and modeling, values as openness and practices as data mining and…[Read more]

La dama boba: edición crítica y archivo digital is an ambitious project that focuses on the history of Lope de Vega’s play. It gives access to the facsimile and the modernized spelling transcription of three witnesses and it presents a critical text with an apparatus and explanatory notes. While it would benefit from documenting its markup and mak…[Read more]

A position paper for the IMLS-funded National Forum, ‘Always Already Computational – Collections as Data’ (https://collectionsasdata.github.io/)

A case study in how small projects use digital tools.

Syllabus for Data Mining in the Humanities, a first year, ten-week seminar for undergraduates introducing them to quantitative digital methods in the humanities. An additional objective is to introduce incoming freshman to the work of humanists and social scientists at Rutgers University who practice digital methods. The seminar is a one-credit,…[Read more]

The rush of activity among London’s auction houses in the first few weeks of summer has long been a familiar occurrence that persists even today. However, this intense seasonal concentration of sales was not always so. This paper draws on quantitative methods to explore the gradual emergence of a tightly scheduled auction season in London at the t…[Read more]

‘unruly gestures: seven cine-paragraphs on reading/writing practices in our post-digital condition’ is a performative essay for Shifting Layers. New Perspectives in Media Archaeology Across Digital Media and Audiovisual Arts’ edited by Miriam De Rosa and Ludovica Fales (Mimesis International, 2016). In it we aspire to break down preconceptions…[Read more]

Syllabus for AL491: Culture: Digital and Physical, taught at Michigan State University, as part of the Technology, Humanities, and the Arts in London study abroad program in summer 2016. This course focuses on how material objects and digital representations shape our understanding of culture and history. The course has no prerequisites and counts…[Read more]

Syllabus for 2016 edition of AL285: Introduction to Digital Humanities, taught at Michigan State University as a required course in the Digital Humanities minor. The course is a survey introduction to the field and has no prerequisites. Eleven students were in the course. Examples of final student projects are available at…[Read more]

Syllabus for 2015 edition of AL285: Introduction to Digital Humanities, taught at Michigan State University as a required course in the Digital Humanities minor. The course is a survey introduction to the field and has no prerequisites. Twelve students were in the course. Examples of final student projects are available at…[Read more]

This chapter discusses the history and relevance of the internet for processes of globalization.

This paper will discuss some possible results of the developing dominance of electronically mediated communication on the practice of theology, focusing on ways digital communications allow, or encourage, us to develop once again features of theologising that were more prominent in earlier times. Peter Horsfield suggested that in some respects…[Read more]