My dissertation, “Messengers and Messages in Middle English Literature,” examines the under-explored role of messengers in fourteenth-century English romances, where they often prove to be crucial elements of the plot or interesting stand-ins for an authorial function. During my capstone experience, I will be pursuing corpus linguistic investigations, with the help of the Digital Studio’sContinue reading “Mining for Medieval Messengers”
Category Archives: Digital Scholarship & Publishing
Public Digital Humanities Capstone Post #1
I am in my last semester of coursework and currently working on my prospectus, which allows me more time to think about how my dissertation will take shape. In this project, I am developing codes to scrap data on two Chinese websites, Weibo (a social media platform) and Bilibili (a video-sharing platform). I have beenContinue reading “Public Digital Humanities Capstone Post #1”
The Studio is Collaborating on a Number of Project Grants
Over the next few years the Studio will offer its assistance and expertise from staff on the following digital projects. We look forward to working with these scholars on making their research more digital and accessible! “Principia Mathematica: A Critical Edition” Landon D.C. Elkind National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Editions Grant Awarded $281,104 ($142,179Continue reading “The Studio is Collaborating on a Number of Project Grants”
Introducing the Studio’s 2020 Summer Fellows
The University of Iowa Graduate College and the UI Libraries Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio are excited to announce that 14 graduate students have been selected for the 2020 Studio Summer Fellowship program. These individuals will soon take part in an 8-week course that provides mentored digital scholarship experience, as well as training in skillsContinue reading “Introducing the Studio’s 2020 Summer Fellows”
Points on a Map
The end of another semester means another update to my map! This semester I focused closely on the first 30 locations in the text, ten from each category of location I determined, visited locations (gray), mentioned in poetry (blue), and mentioned in prose (yellow) . This covers chapters 1-9 for visited locations, 1-10 for placesContinue reading “Points on a Map”
Reflections on the Digital Humanities Capstone Symposium
Yesterday, I attended the Public Digital Humanities (DH) Capstone Symposium. The symposium represented the final step towards completing the Public Digital Humanities certificate. At the event, my colleagues discussed the digital projects they had worked on during the semester, as part of the capstone. Later, the audience, which consisted of members of the Digital ScholarshipContinue reading “Reflections on the Digital Humanities Capstone Symposium”
About my Digital Humanities Capstone Project …
My research broadly examines Black women who traveled abroad for their education motives, either teaching, researching, or studying, during the 20th century. With the Digital Humanities (DH) Capstone Project, I wanted to utilize digital tools to explore, present, and interpret my research. My overall aim was to engage a wider audience with my research, solidifyContinue reading “About my Digital Humanities Capstone Project …”
Visualizing the New Deal for Youth
The Summer Studio Fellowship created an experience centered on exploration. The combination of being introduced to new tools, campus resources, and being given time created a space with which to examine the role data plays in my scholarship and how I communicate my work. In studying the New Deal, agency reports startContinue reading “Visualizing the New Deal for Youth”
Trotting along on my digital journey!
It has been a fascinating few weeks working on my digital project as well as attending the classes during the summer. A reminder of what I have been working on: I am developing a website/ web portfolio of my professional information, and my past and current research work. During summer, I was able toContinue reading “Trotting along on my digital journey!”
Qianyi’s Fellowship Update and Reflection
Since my last post, I paused a little bit on the visualization of the networks on Meetup.com. Instead, I worked more on reading the literature on group dynamics, social networks, and organizational ecology and finalizing my research questions for my dissertation which this project is part of. The finalized core research question is: what makesContinue reading “Qianyi’s Fellowship Update and Reflection”