Touring theatre is a place where theatre studies and globalization come into contact. The year of 2012 was a year of global festivities in which Shakespeare’s works played a major part. Through their exemplary power, the intersections of world cultures and Shakespeare provide a set of important issues for repositioning theatre studies in the w…[Read more]

Having reached a critical mass of participants, performances and the study of Shakespeare in different cultural contexts are changing how we think about globalization. The idea of global Shakespeares has caught on because of site-specific imaginations involving early modern and modern Globe theatres that aspired to perform the globe. Seeing global…[Read more]

The attached syllabus was written for my graduate seminar “Digital Editing and Curation,” taught to 8 PhD students/candidates at UNC Chapel Hill in Spring 2016. The course description is as follows:

“This course introduces students to book history and scholarly editing through the frameworks of media studies and digital humanities. In this…[Read more]

Catalog Description
101 [ARTS] Introduction to Digital Technology & Culture 3 Inquiry into digital media, including origins, theories, forms, applications, and impact with a focus on authoring and critiquing multimodal texts.

Course Description
This course is an introduction to digital technology and culture that integrates interdisciplinary…[Read more]

This syllabus was my third version of a course aimed at introducing the digital humanities at an undergraduate level. The course was organized around four projects, each of which was oriented by a theoretical reading: mapping a novel; text analysis with archival sources; reading a novel collaboratively with courses at other colleges and…[Read more]

This syllabus was my second version of a course aimed at introducing the digital humanities at an undergraduate level. The course was organized around three projects: mapping a novel; text analysis with archival sources; reading a novel collaboratively with courses at other colleges and universities while building a multimedia response; and text…[Read more]

This syllabus was my first attempt at creating a course to introduce digital humanities at an undergraduate level. The course was organized loosely around three projects: mapping a novel; reading a novel collaboratively with 4 other courses at 4 other colleges and universities; and text analysis connected to archival sources.

Peter Pan helps Rita solve the mystery of a stray puzzle piece. Aldo looks at the clouds and decides to quit. A little girl insists on making everything in her coloring book orange. Eve defies darkness turning past dreams into future memories.

12 Random Words / 12 Palabras al Azar is a bilingual collection of interior vignettes told in both…[Read more]

This syllabus describes a group of meetings among faculty, proposing a sustained course of study in which we would ask:
1) Can humanities methods be made available to the public?
2) Do digital methodologies capture and operationalize humanities principles, advance humanistic methodologies, or impede humanities work?

The digital landscape has the potential to open up rare books and manuscript libraries. If they used to be places where selected people were invited in to witness the display of special items, and those with sufficient expertise were allowed to use items under careful supervision, they now can become radically more open. More institutions are…[Read more]

A document detailing the scope, projected outcomes, and design of my coding project with the Princeton Center for Digital Humanities. The project was successfully defended and reviewed in December 2015.

The Princeton Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) director, Meredith Martin, sent this letter to my advisor and the other professors on my dissertation committee to alert them of the successful status of my design review document. This document certifies that my project has been peer reviewed by the CDH committee and is on track towards timely completion.

English 3386 equips students for critical encounters with the texts, images, sounds, and situations that constitute American life, politics, history, and culture. This section is organized around the theme of “Versioning Digital Humanities.” Many texts go through various “versions” as they are revised for republications, corrected for new edition…[Read more]

The emergence of the digital humanities in specialized disciplines and librarianship alike necessitates a recalibration of the balance of knowledge and what Julia Flanders calls “metaknowledge.” DH in the disciplines has brought discussion of metaknowledge – data structures, archival and editorial standards, digital curation and representation -…[Read more]

In today’s DH environment, where big data and linked data are increasingly the focus of scholars looking for ways to extend their research questions through more expansive and complementary datasets, what is the role of the individual research project? Is its value now truly in integration and association and aggregation with other d…[Read more]

In today’s DH environment, where big data and linked data are increasingly the focus of scholars looking for ways to extend their research questions through more expansive and complementary datasets, what is the role of the individual research project? Is its value now truly in integration and association and aggregation with other d…[Read more]