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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.

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 […]

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February Opportunities

Amanda Demeter
January 28, 2023

This post will be expanded as new opportunities are found. First published January 27, 2023. Latest revision February 24, 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

Collage of multiple photos representing different disciplines with text: Undergraduate Research Symposium, May 19, 2023

Annual UW Undergraduate Research Symposium

Amanda Demeter
January 24, 2023

Submissions are now being accepted for the Annual UW Undergraduate Research Symposium, which will take place on Friday, May 19, 2023. To present your work at this event, you must submit an application by Friday, February 12, 2023. The application and information about the Symposium may be found on the Undergraduate Research Program’s Symposium Page. The Symposium is a celebration of undergraduate […]

Mural of Black woman with a multicolored and patterned afro.

Call for Student Journal Editorial Roles

Amanda Demeter
January 18, 2023

Process, a journal for undergraduate research and creative writing run by graduate students, is looking for new Editorial Board members. Please see below for their calls for board members, managing editor, and co-editor-in-chief. Board Members Process: Journal of Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Scholarship is excited to announce we are seeking new editorial board members to support our […]

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Hannah Frydman wins the Larry Schehr Memorial Award

Amanda Demeter
January 6, 2023

Crossposted from French & Italian Studies. At the end of last quarter, Assistant Professor of French Hannah Frydman won the Larry Schehr Memorial Award for the best essay at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium by an untenured PhD within the first six years since receiving the degree for her essay, “Confidences épistolaires de la Vénus publique’: Le Figaro’s Petite Correspondance and the […]