DH@SDSU is sad to share the news of Angel David Nieves’s passing earlier this month. Angel was hired as Associate Professor of History and Digital Humanities in 2017 and went on to serve as co-director of the DH initiative at SDSU from 2019-2020. DH@SDSU prioritizes people over process and product, an ethic of care, and all the ways in which relationality gives deeper meaning to this work. In that spirit, rather than providing an inventory of Angel’s accomplishments at SDSU or in the Digital Humanities community, we wanted to share some anecdotes about who he was to us. Angel David Nieves in t ..read more

Honoring our Experience as Rationale for Cancellation The annual Digital Humanities Showcase and Electronic Literature Competition is the culminating moment of DH@SDSU’s academic year. Part celebration of the DH projects faculty and students create in diverse classes across campus, part celebration of our DH staff and their year long labors, our showcase is all celebration. We come together– hundreds of us– in the DH Center to share, learn, and be together.  But, these are strange times.  When Covid hit, we were forced to cancel our 2020 showcase.  A year later, we now make the ..read more

Brent Ameneyro – DH E-lit Programs Assistant One of the barriers I’ve encountered when introducing E-Lit to traditional writers is navigating the vast (and sometimes intimidating) landscape. To help with this challenge, I have curated a few resources to educate and inspire.   This is just a humble blog post and is not intended to replace the important scholarly work that has been conducted in this field. E-Lit has been around since the dawn of computer technology. As personal computers became more common in the 90s, E-Lit gained momentum with groundbreaking works like Shelley Jackson’s P ..read more