Category: Digital Humanities

Faculty & students briefly showcase some interesting collaborative digital projects championed by our Humanities Center, including a partnership with the Watt Munisotaram in nearby Hampton, Minnesota.

The very first issue of the Carleton Undergraduate Journal of Humanistic Studies is officially out! To access the journal, visit go.carleton.edu/ujhs. We are very excited to present eight pieces of scholarship from across the humanities disciplines. This project was the result of many hours of hard work and collaboration.

Introducing Austin Mason, a postdoctoral fellow in the digital humanities.

Since 2012, Carleton has been engaged in a collaborative planning grant on the digital humanities, with St. Olaf and Macalester Colleges. Although this initiative has shown us that the landscape of digital tools is immensely fluid, there is some emerging consensus, and a lot of excitement about several key technologies.

With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Spencer Foundation, and the Teagle Foundation, AAC&U and the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) have published a new report on earnings and long-term career paths for college graduates with different undergraduate majors.

A few months ago, Iris Jastram gave a wonderful presentation on copyright at one of our workshops, and she has now published a version of it! You can view it on her blog, Pegasus Librarian.

Iris’s presentation was a major help to me in working with my students last term on fair use issues for their web design projects, and I know other faculty and students here and elsewhere will find this publication really helpful. Congratulations, Iris!

Laura McGrane, Associate Professor of English and the Koshland Director of the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities at Haverford College recently visited Carleton. She presented two public talks.

Her first talk, ‘a pumkin and a pine-apple’: The Transatlantic Incarnate in William Dunlap’s Comedy,” was hosted by the Carleton English Department, and took place on Wednesday, April 24th in Leighton 304.

Her second talk, “The User Paradox in the Classroom,” was hosted by the Humanities Center on Thursday, April 25th, in the Gould Library Athenaeum. Professor McGrane, a leader in the Tri-College Digital Humanities collaborative initiative, explored changes to ways of reading and absorbing text (among other things) in the digital age in her talk.