Elliott Stevens on Digital Scholarship and Accessibility in Storytelling Over the past four weeks, the University of Washington Libraries has hosted a program called Storytelling Fellows. Led by UW Textual Studies’ own Elliott Stevens (Research Commons and English Studies Librarian, UW Libraries), alongside Perry Yee, Kathryn Miller, Dylan Burns, and… Read more: UW Libraries Hosts Storytelling Fellows Podcasting Workshop
Bonnie Ha on Collaborating with UW Special Collections for Online Exhibition of Historical Anatomy Books Over the summer quarter, UW Textual Studies student Bonnie Ha completed her Capstone project and, with it, the undergraduate Minor in Textual Study and Digital Humanities. The Capstone is a culminating project, undertaken during any… Read more: UW Textual Studies Minor Completes Capstone on Digital Exhibition
Hello everyone! My name is Nikita Willeford Kastrinos and I’m very excited to join the UW Textual Studies Program as a Research Associate this academic year. I’m a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English and an alum of the UW Textual Studies graduate certificate program. In this blog, I’ll… Read more: UW Textual Studies adds Research Associate in Program Development and Outreach
Old Books, New Technologies: Textual Studies’ Dawg Daze Event Recap Last week, the UW Textual Studies Program welcomed new and returning students to our Dawg Daze event, “Old Books, New Technologies: UW Special Collections and the Minor in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities.” Held in the UW Libraries’ Special Collections,… Read more: UW Textual Studies Dawg Daze Takes Students to Special Collections
UW Textual Studies Program Fall Events, Upcoming Courses, and Program Information Welcome back, UW students! Here at UW Textual Studies, we’re gearing up for another academic year! We’re looking forward to welcoming new and returning students to our undergraduate and graduate programs, and are getting ready to host some fantastic events,… Read more: Welcome Back UW Textual Studies Students
We are delighted to announce the winners of the annual Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Academic Awards! All students who enrolled in a Textual Studies course between WI23 and WI24 were eligible to submit a project related to work done in the course. Many thanks to the students who submitted… Read more: Congrats to the winners of TXTDS academic awards!
Congratulations to TXTDS minors Lauren Zarlingo and Ray Molinar for completing their capstone projects for the minor in winter 2024! Lauren Zarlingo’s (Foster’24) capstone project, completed under the direction of Prof. Anna Preus (English), investigated the history of the New York Times’ coverage of New York City Ballet’s The Nutcracker. … Read more: TXTDS Minors’ Winter Capstone Projects
Eric Flores recently started a position at the National Archives and Records Administration as an Archivist, after receiving his Graduate Certificate in Textual and Digital Studies in 2023. His worked on his capstone with Kenzie Brown on the Rare Books Collection in the Archdiocese of Seattle. He shared some of… Read more: Eric Flores on his new role at the National Archives
Textual Studies Alumnus, Andreas P. Bassett, received the Bibliographical Society of America’s 2024 Katherine F. Pantzer New Scholar Award. This award comes with an invitation to give a talk at their 2024 annual meeting and submit a publication to their journal Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. Bassett is a… Read more: TDS Alumnus Receives Bibliographical Society of America’s Award
Nikita Willeford Kastrinos is a PhD candidate in the Department of English who earned her Graduate Certificate in Textual and Digital Studies in spring 2022. Her research focuses on the intersection of literary form and material format in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novel. In her own words she describes… Read more: Nikita Willeford Kastrinos on Dracula and Yellowback Novels
Kenzie Brown and Eric Flores, who earned their Graduate Certificates in Textual and Digital Studies in spring 2023, worked on cataloging the Rare Books Collection in the Archdiocese of Seattle from January 2023 to May 2023 as part of their capstone project for their Master’s of Library and Information Science degree and… Read more: Cataloguing Rare Books in the Archdiocese of Seattle
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… Read more: Digital Humanities this Summer!
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… Read more: Textual and Digital Studies Grad Certificate Capstones!
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)… Read more: New TXTDS Academic Awards
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
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… Read more: Student Spotlight: Alex Seo & TXTDS Minor Capstone
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… Read more: Melanie Walsh Receives NEH DH Advancement Grant
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
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… Read more: Annual UW Undergraduate Research Symposium
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… Read more: Call for Student Journal Editorial Roles
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… Read more: Hannah Frydman wins the Larry Schehr Memorial Award
This post will be expanded as new opportunities are found. First published December 28, 2022. Latest revision January 25, 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, Fellowships & Internships
The University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences is continuing to build its interdisciplinary Humanities Data Science program with a new Assistant Professor position to be housed in one of the division’s departments (Asian Languages & Literature, French & Italian Studies, German Studies, Linguistics, Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures,… Read more: Non-Anglophone Humanities Data Science Assistant Professor Position
First published Friday, December 16, 2022. Edited Tuesday, December 20 to reflect change to ITAL 262 offer quarter. The UW Translation Studies Hub has made their 2022-2023 academic year goal to increase translation literacy across the course offerings at the university, making translation literacy a priority in the undergraduate curriculum.… Read more: TXTDS-Affiliated Faculty Receive Course Development Funding
The Interdisciplinary Minor in Data Science at UW is organizing a “Humanities Data Science Summer Institute,” which will pair undergraduate and graduate students with UW faculty or staff who are engaged in humanities data science research during term A of Summer 2023 (June 20–July 19, 2023). Please see below for… Read more: Humanities Data Science Summer Institute
If you recall our post in August 2022 about Recent Publications by Textual Studies Students & Alumni, TXTDS graduate certificate alum Sarah Faulkner (English PhD, 2020) was invited to write the introduction to Flame Tree Publishing’s Collector’s Edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus in 2020. In her introduction, Faulkner… Read more: Sarah Faulkner Hosts Book Talk
This post will be expanded as new opportunities are found. First published November 29, 2022, latest revision December 21, 2022. 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 & Fellowships
University of Washington students, faculty, and staff are invited to participate in the workshop, “Python, Your Personal Research Assistant” this Friday, December 2 at 9 am to 12 pm on the Seattle campus. The workshop, led by Naomi Alterman from the UW eScience Institute, offers an introduction to the Python… Read more: Beginner Python Workshop
This guest post is written by Linguistics, French, and TXTDS student Piper Thomas, who recently completed the Textual Studies and Digital Humanities (TXTDS) minor Capstone project. This story has also been posted to the French & Italian Studies website. Photos by Assistant Book Arts Librarian Kat Lewis. About Me I… Read more: Student Spotlight: Piper Thomas & TXTDS Minor Capstone
This post will be expanded as new opportunities are found. First published October 28, 2022. Latest revision November 23, 2022. Sources: Bibliographic Society of America newsletter, Penn Workshop in the History of Material Texts listserv, Twitter. Events Calls for Proposals Funding & Awards Jobs
Join the Textual Studies Program at two events related to geospatial humanities here on the Seattle campus: Maps as Text and Text as Maps2:30-4:30 pm, Wednesday, November 2, 2022University of Washington (Seattle campus), Communications Building CMU 202 Talk by Katie McDonough (Alan Turing Institute) followed by a tutorial with Ludovic… Read more: Upcoming Event in Geospatial Humanities
This post will be expanded as new opportunities are found. First published Tuesday, October 18, 2022. Latest revision Wednesday, October 26, 2022. Sources: Bibliographic Society of America newsletter, Penn Workshop in the History of Material Texts listserv, Twitter. Events University of Washington Libraries Special Collections exhibit: In-person exhibit in UW… Read more: October Opportunities
We are pleased to announce that the Textual Studies Program will be hosting an event with the UW Libraries Special Collections to promote the new minor in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities for Dawg Daze, new students’ week-long introduction to all things University of Washington! Old Books, New Technologies: UW… Read more: Dawg Daze with the Textual Studies Program
The 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities will be held in conjunction with ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022 International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems in Seattle, WA in November 2022. The workshop is concerned with the use of geographic information systems and other spatial technologies in humanities research… Read more: Call for Submissions: ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities
We recently checked in with our Textual Studies graduate certificate alumni and are pleased to share news of several publications over the past year. Following her work co-organizing the bicentenary of Frankenstein at UW in 2018, Sarah Faulkner (English PhD, 2020) was approached by Flame Tree Publishing (London) in 2020… Read more: Recent Publications by Textual Studies Students & Alumni
In July 2022, the University of Washington’s Graduate School approved revisions to Graduate School policy Memo 43: Graduate Certificates after a tri-campus feedback process and Graduate School Council faculty approval. The revision allows for a new “stacked” graduate degree policy (Memo 50: The Stacked Graduate Degree) used by other programs, but we… Read more: Great News for Grad Students
On June 3, 2022 Francesca Colonnese and Nikita Willeford Kastrinos gave their presentations as part of the capstone for completion of the Graduate Certificate in Textual and Digital Studies. Francesca Colonnese, PhD student in English, presented “When I am Read: The Temporality of Christina Rossetti in the Newspaper.” Colonnese looked… Read more: Graduate Certificate Capstone 2022
Congratulations to Professor of French Hannah Frydman for her receipt of the Malcolm Bowie Prize from the Society for French Studies! The Bowie Prize goes to the best article published in the preceding year by an early-career researcher in French Studies. Frydman’s article, “Freedom’s Sex Problem: Classified Advertising, Law, and… Read more: Professor Hannah Frydman Wins Malcolm Bowie Prize
Textual and Digital Studies Capstone PresentationsFriday, June 3, 3-4:30pmSimpson Center, CMU 202 On June 3, Francesca Colonnese and Nikita Willeford Kastrinos will be giving short presentations as part of the capstone for completion of the Graduate Certificate in Textual and Digital Studies. The TDS certificate is open to any student… Read more: 2022 Capstone Event for Textual Studies Graduate Certificate
The American Printing History Association welcomes submissions for a special issue of its peer-reviewed journal Printing History dedicated to any aspect of printing and related arts across Latin American and Caribbean cultures. The issue will focus on the study of printing history and practices of peoples and cultures related to… Read more: Call for Submissions to Printing History
The Textual Studies Program and partner departments project the following courses to be offered during the 2022/2023 academic year. Please note that these offerings are subject to change. Autumn 2022 Digital Editing and Text Processing for Publication / Texts, Publics, and Publication — TXTDS 414 / FRENCH 420 / TXTDS… Read more: Planned Courses for 2022/2023
The Textual Studies program is pleased to announce the launch of our new website and domain. This site will continue to be the source for information on our graduate (and soon, undergraduate!) programs and courses, along with news from our faculty and student community. We are grateful to Russell Hugo,… Read more: New Textual Studies Website & Domain
The Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections (CIFNAL) is a global collaboration under the umbrella of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). The University of Washington Libraries is a member of CRL and CIFNAL and shared this virtual series with us, which will be relevant to both our French &… Read more: CIFNAL Speaker Series on Digital Humanities in French & Francophone Studies
In Autumn 2021, Associate Professor of Italian Studies Beatrice Arduini published several new works in Italian and Textual Studies, including scholarship that connects with her work supported by the Simpson Center’s Digital Humanities Summer Fellowships earlier that year. In collaboration with Jelena Todorović, Professor Arduini co-wrote “Biscioni’s Dante,” published in… Read more: Recent Italian and Textual Studies Scholarship by Professor Beatrice Arduini
Assistant Professor Anna Preus (Department of English, Humanities Data Science) and Associate Professor Geoffrey Turnovsky (Department of French & Italian Studies, Textual Studies Program) are the latest guests on the English department’s “Literature, Language, Culture” series, where they discuss the value of Digital Humanities with host C. R. Grimmer (Department… Read more: Geoffrey Turnovsky & Anna Preus on Digital Humanities, Data Science, and TEI
New Assistant Professor of French Studies Hannah Frydman has published the article, “Freedom’s Sex Problem: Classified Advertising, Law, and the Politics of Reading in Third Republic France,” in French Historical Studies (volume 44, number 4). The article traces the history of legal responses to so-called immorality (e.g. abortion, sex work,… Read more: New Publication by Professor Hannah Frydman
Ayla Tanurhan Collaborates with UW Special Collections Exhibitions on Inclusive Design Over the spring 2024 quarter, UW Textual Studies student Ayla Tanurhan completed the undergraduate Minor in Textual Study and Digital Humanities with a culminating Capstone project in collaboration with UW Special Collections Exhibitions. In her own words, Ayla describes… Read more: Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor Researches Accessibility in Library Exhibitions for Capstone Project
Elliott Stevens on Digital Scholarship and Accessibility in Storytelling Over the past four weeks, the University of Washington Libraries has hosted a program called Storytelling Fellows. Led by UW Textual Studies’ own Elliott Stevens (Research Commons and English Studies Librarian, UW Libraries), alongside Perry Yee, Kathryn Miller, Dylan Burns, and… Read more: UW Libraries Hosts Storytelling Fellows Podcasting Workshop
Bonnie Ha on Collaborating with UW Special Collections for Online Exhibition of Historical Anatomy Books Over the summer quarter, UW Textual Studies student Bonnie Ha completed her Capstone project and, with it, the undergraduate Minor in Textual Study and Digital Humanities. The Capstone is a culminating project, undertaken during any… Read more: UW Textual Studies Minor Completes Capstone on Digital Exhibition
Hello everyone! My name is Nikita Willeford Kastrinos and I’m very excited to join the UW Textual Studies Program as a Research Associate this academic year. I’m a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English and an alum of the UW Textual Studies graduate certificate program. In this blog, I’ll… Read more: UW Textual Studies adds Research Associate in Program Development and Outreach
Old Books, New Technologies: Textual Studies’ Dawg Daze Event Recap Last week, the UW Textual Studies Program welcomed new and returning students to our Dawg Daze event, “Old Books, New Technologies: UW Special Collections and the Minor in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities.” Held in the UW Libraries’ Special Collections,… Read more: UW Textual Studies Dawg Daze Takes Students to Special Collections
UW Textual Studies Program Fall Events, Upcoming Courses, and Program Information Welcome back, UW students! Here at UW Textual Studies, we’re gearing up for another academic year! We’re looking forward to welcoming new and returning students to our undergraduate and graduate programs, and are getting ready to host some fantastic events,… Read more: Welcome Back UW Textual Studies Students
We are delighted to announce the winners of the annual Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Academic Awards! All students who enrolled in a Textual Studies course between WI23 and WI24 were eligible to submit a project related to work done in the course. Many thanks to the students who submitted… Read more: Congrats to the winners of TXTDS academic awards!
Congratulations to TXTDS minors Lauren Zarlingo and Ray Molinar for completing their capstone projects for the minor in winter 2024! Lauren Zarlingo’s (Foster’24) capstone project, completed under the direction of Prof. Anna Preus (English), investigated the history of the New York Times’ coverage of New York City Ballet’s The Nutcracker. … Read more: TXTDS Minors’ Winter Capstone Projects
Eric Flores recently started a position at the National Archives and Records Administration as an Archivist, after receiving his Graduate Certificate in Textual and Digital Studies in 2023. His worked on his capstone with Kenzie Brown on the Rare Books Collection in the Archdiocese of Seattle. He shared some of… Read more: Eric Flores on his new role at the National Archives
Textual Studies Alumnus, Andreas P. Bassett, received the Bibliographical Society of America’s 2024 Katherine F. Pantzer New Scholar Award. This award comes with an invitation to give a talk at their 2024 annual meeting and submit a publication to their journal Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. Bassett is a… Read more: TDS Alumnus Receives Bibliographical Society of America’s Award
Nikita Willeford Kastrinos is a PhD candidate in the Department of English who earned her Graduate Certificate in Textual and Digital Studies in spring 2022. Her research focuses on the intersection of literary form and material format in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novel. In her own words she describes… Read more: Nikita Willeford Kastrinos on Dracula and Yellowback Novels
Kenzie Brown and Eric Flores, who earned their Graduate Certificates in Textual and Digital Studies in spring 2023, worked on cataloging the Rare Books Collection in the Archdiocese of Seattle from January 2023 to May 2023 as part of their capstone project for their Master’s of Library and Information Science degree and… Read more: Cataloguing Rare Books in the Archdiocese of Seattle
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… Read more: Digital Humanities this Summer!
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… Read more: Textual and Digital Studies Grad Certificate Capstones!
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)… Read more: New TXTDS Academic Awards
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
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… Read more: Student Spotlight: Alex Seo & TXTDS Minor Capstone
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… Read more: Melanie Walsh Receives NEH DH Advancement Grant
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
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… Read more: Annual UW Undergraduate Research Symposium
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… Read more: Call for Student Journal Editorial Roles
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… Read more: Hannah Frydman wins the Larry Schehr Memorial Award
This post will be expanded as new opportunities are found. First published December 28, 2022. Latest revision January 25, 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, Fellowships & Internships
The University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences is continuing to build its interdisciplinary Humanities Data Science program with a new Assistant Professor position to be housed in one of the division’s departments (Asian Languages & Literature, French & Italian Studies, German Studies, Linguistics, Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures,… Read more: Non-Anglophone Humanities Data Science Assistant Professor Position
First published Friday, December 16, 2022. Edited Tuesday, December 20 to reflect change to ITAL 262 offer quarter. The UW Translation Studies Hub has made their 2022-2023 academic year goal to increase translation literacy across the course offerings at the university, making translation literacy a priority in the undergraduate curriculum.… Read more: TXTDS-Affiliated Faculty Receive Course Development Funding
The Interdisciplinary Minor in Data Science at UW is organizing a “Humanities Data Science Summer Institute,” which will pair undergraduate and graduate students with UW faculty or staff who are engaged in humanities data science research during term A of Summer 2023 (June 20–July 19, 2023). Please see below for… Read more: Humanities Data Science Summer Institute
If you recall our post in August 2022 about Recent Publications by Textual Studies Students & Alumni, TXTDS graduate certificate alum Sarah Faulkner (English PhD, 2020) was invited to write the introduction to Flame Tree Publishing’s Collector’s Edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus in 2020. In her introduction, Faulkner… Read more: Sarah Faulkner Hosts Book Talk
This post will be expanded as new opportunities are found. First published November 29, 2022, latest revision December 21, 2022. 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 & Fellowships
University of Washington students, faculty, and staff are invited to participate in the workshop, “Python, Your Personal Research Assistant” this Friday, December 2 at 9 am to 12 pm on the Seattle campus. The workshop, led by Naomi Alterman from the UW eScience Institute, offers an introduction to the Python… Read more: Beginner Python Workshop
This guest post is written by Linguistics, French, and TXTDS student Piper Thomas, who recently completed the Textual Studies and Digital Humanities (TXTDS) minor Capstone project. This story has also been posted to the French & Italian Studies website. Photos by Assistant Book Arts Librarian Kat Lewis. About Me I… Read more: Student Spotlight: Piper Thomas & TXTDS Minor Capstone
This post will be expanded as new opportunities are found. First published October 28, 2022. Latest revision November 23, 2022. Sources: Bibliographic Society of America newsletter, Penn Workshop in the History of Material Texts listserv, Twitter. Events Calls for Proposals Funding & Awards Jobs
Join the Textual Studies Program at two events related to geospatial humanities here on the Seattle campus: Maps as Text and Text as Maps2:30-4:30 pm, Wednesday, November 2, 2022University of Washington (Seattle campus), Communications Building CMU 202 Talk by Katie McDonough (Alan Turing Institute) followed by a tutorial with Ludovic… Read more: Upcoming Event in Geospatial Humanities
This post will be expanded as new opportunities are found. First published Tuesday, October 18, 2022. Latest revision Wednesday, October 26, 2022. Sources: Bibliographic Society of America newsletter, Penn Workshop in the History of Material Texts listserv, Twitter. Events University of Washington Libraries Special Collections exhibit: In-person exhibit in UW… Read more: October Opportunities
We are pleased to announce that the Textual Studies Program will be hosting an event with the UW Libraries Special Collections to promote the new minor in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities for Dawg Daze, new students’ week-long introduction to all things University of Washington! Old Books, New Technologies: UW… Read more: Dawg Daze with the Textual Studies Program
The 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities will be held in conjunction with ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022 International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems in Seattle, WA in November 2022. The workshop is concerned with the use of geographic information systems and other spatial technologies in humanities research… Read more: Call for Submissions: ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities
We recently checked in with our Textual Studies graduate certificate alumni and are pleased to share news of several publications over the past year. Following her work co-organizing the bicentenary of Frankenstein at UW in 2018, Sarah Faulkner (English PhD, 2020) was approached by Flame Tree Publishing (London) in 2020… Read more: Recent Publications by Textual Studies Students & Alumni
In July 2022, the University of Washington’s Graduate School approved revisions to Graduate School policy Memo 43: Graduate Certificates after a tri-campus feedback process and Graduate School Council faculty approval. The revision allows for a new “stacked” graduate degree policy (Memo 50: The Stacked Graduate Degree) used by other programs, but we… Read more: Great News for Grad Students
On June 3, 2022 Francesca Colonnese and Nikita Willeford Kastrinos gave their presentations as part of the capstone for completion of the Graduate Certificate in Textual and Digital Studies. Francesca Colonnese, PhD student in English, presented “When I am Read: The Temporality of Christina Rossetti in the Newspaper.” Colonnese looked… Read more: Graduate Certificate Capstone 2022
Congratulations to Professor of French Hannah Frydman for her receipt of the Malcolm Bowie Prize from the Society for French Studies! The Bowie Prize goes to the best article published in the preceding year by an early-career researcher in French Studies. Frydman’s article, “Freedom’s Sex Problem: Classified Advertising, Law, and… Read more: Professor Hannah Frydman Wins Malcolm Bowie Prize
Textual and Digital Studies Capstone PresentationsFriday, June 3, 3-4:30pmSimpson Center, CMU 202 On June 3, Francesca Colonnese and Nikita Willeford Kastrinos will be giving short presentations as part of the capstone for completion of the Graduate Certificate in Textual and Digital Studies. The TDS certificate is open to any student… Read more: 2022 Capstone Event for Textual Studies Graduate Certificate
The American Printing History Association welcomes submissions for a special issue of its peer-reviewed journal Printing History dedicated to any aspect of printing and related arts across Latin American and Caribbean cultures. The issue will focus on the study of printing history and practices of peoples and cultures related to… Read more: Call for Submissions to Printing History
The Textual Studies Program and partner departments project the following courses to be offered during the 2022/2023 academic year. Please note that these offerings are subject to change. Autumn 2022 Digital Editing and Text Processing for Publication / Texts, Publics, and Publication — TXTDS 414 / FRENCH 420 / TXTDS… Read more: Planned Courses for 2022/2023
The Textual Studies program is pleased to announce the launch of our new website and domain. This site will continue to be the source for information on our graduate (and soon, undergraduate!) programs and courses, along with news from our faculty and student community. We are grateful to Russell Hugo,… Read more: New Textual Studies Website & Domain
On Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at 3 p.m. on Zoom, French & Italian Studies will host Dr. Natale Vacalebre, speaking on publisher Aldus Manutius. This talk will be of interest to all in the Humanities, and especially to Italian Studies and Textual Studies faculty and students. The human and intellectual… Read more: Guest Lecture by Dr. Natale Vacalebre: Books as Bridges of Peace: Aldus Manutius and Pedagogical Humanism
The Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections (CIFNAL) is a global collaboration under the umbrella of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). The University of Washington Libraries is a member of CRL and CIFNAL and shared this virtual series with us, which will be relevant to both our French &… Read more: CIFNAL Speaker Series on Digital Humanities in French & Francophone Studies
In Autumn 2021, Associate Professor of Italian Studies Beatrice Arduini published several new works in Italian and Textual Studies, including scholarship that connects with her work supported by the Simpson Center’s Digital Humanities Summer Fellowships earlier that year. In collaboration with Jelena Todorović, Professor Arduini co-wrote “Biscioni’s Dante,” published in… Read more: Recent Italian and Textual Studies Scholarship by Professor Beatrice Arduini
Assistant Professor Anna Preus (Department of English, Humanities Data Science) and Associate Professor Geoffrey Turnovsky (Department of French & Italian Studies, Textual Studies Program) are the latest guests on the English department’s “Literature, Language, Culture” series, where they discuss the value of Digital Humanities with host C. R. Grimmer (Department… Read more: Geoffrey Turnovsky & Anna Preus on Digital Humanities, Data Science, and TEI
New Assistant Professor of French Studies Hannah Frydman has published the article, “Freedom’s Sex Problem: Classified Advertising, Law, and the Politics of Reading in Third Republic France,” in French Historical Studies (volume 44, number 4). The article traces the history of legal responses to so-called immorality (e.g. abortion, sex work,… Read more: New Publication by Professor Hannah Frydman
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