by Maren Loveland, Mellon Graduate Fellow, English & CMAP As a current DH Fellow, my research explores how infrastructured environments are mediated by digital technologies—namely through mapping, photography, and film. More specifically, I am curious about how these mediations affect the way infrastructures are imagined and aestheticized, and how they become objects of narrative and ..read more

by Tori Hoover, Mellon Graduate Fellow, English & CMAP I stood before the class and smoothed my sweaty palms down the front of my dress. My hand trembled as I looked at my creased class list, and I quickly placed it on the podium. It was my first day teaching a class, and it was ..read more

By Katerina Traut, Mellon Graduate Fellow, Political Science Architecture, place, and space are powerful tools for humanistic teaching and scholarship. In the past two decades, research that uses technology such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and StoryMap JS to visualize, represent, and analyze spatial data has boomed. Spatial humanities that uses digital tools spurs questions ..read more

by Meghan McGinley, Mellon Graduate Fellow, French & Italian I initially conceived of my DH project “Mapping the Tarot: Game and Divination Across Time” as a means to trace the cultural histories of the game of tarot using ArcGIS, an online mapping tool that allows for interactive digital storytelling. In conjunction with the George Clulow-United ..read more

By Debbie Brubaker, Mellon Graduate Fellow, Religion/Theological Studies When digital technologies are integrated into humanistic research projects, the search for alignment between research tools and objectives often challenges commonly-used approaches. This has been my experience during data collection, corpus creation, and through the selection of technical tools as a Mellon Graduate Fellow in DH. Most ..read more

By Abigail Trozenski, German, Russian & East European Studies & CMAP   With the annual celebration of Valentine’s Day recently passed, let us examine modern celebrations of romance forming in the world of online dating services. Turning to digital media for all things love has been on the rise since the early 2000s, and we’re ..read more

Tyler Anthony – Department of Spanish and Portuguese, CMAP, Mellon Graduate Fellow In recent years, a debate surrounding world language credit has emerged within different educational institutions across the United States. Traditionally, students across the nation are required to meet a certain credit threshold of world language courses, such as Spanish, French, Mandarin, etc. to ..read more

Elvira Aballi Morell – Department of Spanish and Portuguese & Mellon Graduate Fellow The Latinx community in the U.S. has been growing exponentially, and with it, the community’s needs. It is known that “Latinos accounted for half of the growth in the U.S. between 2000 and 2012” (Tennessean). However, most people may not know that ..read more

By Samantha Rogers, Department of History and Mellon Graduate Student Fellow   Digital humanities are a dynamic and evolving field that, in my mind, serves two crucial functions. First, they offer methods of data gathering, analysis, and visualization that enable scholars to engage with new research questions and present their work in new ways. Second ..read more