Syllabus and schedule for Digital Storytelling, a graduate-level course taught by Jim McGrath in Spring 2017 at Brown University.

Syllabus for graduate-level course in Digital Public Humanities taught by Jim McGrath (postdoctoral fellow in Digital Public Humanities). Course is part of Brown’s Public Humanities M.A. Program (institutionally residing in the American Studies department). A primary feature of this course is a collaboration with the Providence Public Library…[Read more]

This poster documents recent work done at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage (Brown University) to survey the field of public humanities, create an institutional history of the Center through a digital collection of assets, and visualize particular points of emphasis in the intellectual history of the field…[Read more]

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the majority of U.S. states adopted a novel code of legal practice for their civil courts. Legal scholars have long recognized the influence of the New York lawyer David Dudley Field on American legal codification, but tracing the influence of Field’s code of civil procedure with precision across s…[Read more]

“Game Fiction” provides a framework for understanding the relationship between narrative and computer games and is defined as a genre of game that draws upon and uses narrative strategies to create, maintain, and lead a user through a fictional environment. Competitive, ergodic, progressive (and often episodic), game fictions’ primary goal must…[Read more]