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Textual Studies and Digital Humanities at UW

Interdisciplinary study of the history, present and future of texts, from scrolls, manuscripts and printed books to archival documents, digital texts and textual data. Explore how texts have been written, published, read, circulated, catalogued and archived from antiquity to today.

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Minor in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities

Interdisciplinary Minor for UW students interested in careers in libraries, archives, publishing and in issues related to editing, preservation, storage and access. Learn to work with archival materials in Special Collections and discover techniques for building digital editions and textual databases. Click for more info about curriculum and requirements.

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Graduate Certificate in Textual and Digital Studies

Students enrolled in any MA or PhD program at the UW can complete a 16-credit Graduate Certificate in Textual and Digital Studies. A complement to a degree program for students interested in digital humanities projects, archival work, and in reflecting on the role of material forms and textual histories of the materials they study. Click for more info.

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Discover core and elective courses in the TXTDS curriculum and affiliated programs.

Courses in Digital Humanities and Humanities Data Science, The History of Books and Publishing, Archive and Library Studies, Manuscript Studies, Print Culture, among many other areas. Click for 2024-2025 courses.

Digital Humanities this Summer!

Karishma Manglani
September 19, 2023

Faculty and Graduate Students affiliated with the UW Textual Studies Program developed exciting projects in Digital Humanities, as Digital Humanities Summer Fellows, at the Simpson Center for the Humanities! Hannah Frydman (French & Italian Studies) was awarded a Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship to work on her project Between the Digital Sheets: Research and Teaching Methods […]

Textual and Digital Studies Grad Certificate Capstones!

Geoffrey Turnovsky
May 18, 2023

Thursday, May 25, 3-6pm Seminar Room of the Simpson Center for the Humanities Communications 202 We’ll hear about the following terrific projects from students completing the Textual and Digital Studies certificate. Refreshments will be served. Ashlyn Higareda (MLIS) and Melissa Fallon (MLIS) Petals and Pages: A Blooming Analysis of Floral Illuminations in Medieval Manuscripts Our project […]

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New TXTDS Academic Awards

Amanda Demeter
March 8, 2023

The Textual Studies Program and our home department French & Italian Studies are please to announce new academic awards for Textual & Digital Studies students in our annual Academic Awards! All currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate students who have completed a project in a Textual and Digital Studies course (TXTDS) in the Spring 2022 through […]

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March Opportunities

Amanda Demeter
February 28, 2023

This post will be expanded as new opportunities are found. First published February 28, 2023, latest revision March 8, 2023. Sources: Bibliographic Society of America newsletter, Penn Workshop in the History of Material Texts listserv, Twitter, TXTDS-affiliated faculty. Events Calls for Proposals Funding & Awards Jobs, Internships & Fellowships

Textual Studies minor Alex Seo standing over a book in a cradle, in the UW Special Collections classroom.

Student Spotlight: Alex Seo & TXTDS Minor Capstone

Amanda Demeter
February 10, 2023

This guest post is written by Linguistics and TXTDS student Alex Seo, who recently completed the Textual Studies and Digital Humanities (TXTDS) minor Capstone project. Images courtesy of Assistant Book Arts Librarian Kat Lewis. Introduction I am a Linguistics major with a minor in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, and a minor in Data Science. I […]

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Melanie Walsh Receives NEH DH Advancement Grant

Amanda Demeter
February 4, 2023

Congratulations to iSchool Professor and Textual Studies faculty Melanie Walsh, who has received a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities! Walsh is a co-project director with Matthew Wilkens and David Mimno from the Department of Information Science at Cornell University. Their project, “BERT for Humanists,” will develop case studies about and […]