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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.

Letterpress Holiday Cards and Linocut Printing with UW Textual Studies

Nikita Willeford Kastrinos
December 15, 2025

TXTDS Fall Quarter Event Recap | Printmaking Social: Holiday Edition To ring in the end of the fall quarter and the start of winter break, UW Textual Studies hosted a Printmaking Social: Holiday Edition. Themed around card making, this session offered students in the Textual Studies Minor and Graduate Certificate program the chance to print […]

UW Textual Studies Minor Completes Capstone on Collection Development in the UW Libraries

Nikita Willeford Kastrinos
December 9, 2025

Riley Hull on Helping UW Libraries Build English Studies Reference Holdings During this past academic year, UW Textual Studies alum and current MA student in the history of the book at the University of London, Riley Hull, completed a Capstone project in conjunction with UW Libraries on collection development in the subject of English Studies. Working under […]