Digital Humanities
Conceptualize and oversee an ongoing digital pedagogy project with students to produce a collaborative digital edition of the Virginia Lucas Scrapbook, a nineteenth-century artifact in Virginia Tech’s Special Collections. Students in ENGL 4784: Scrapbooks and Nineteenth-Century American Poetry transcribe, research, and analyze poems preserved in the Virginia Lucas Scrapbook; the results of their research become part of a publicly available digital edition built on the multimedia publishing platform scalar.
Consultant for Special Projects, William Blake Archive. January 2014-present.
Provide ongoing guidance on initiatives to expand and improve the William Blake Archive. Projects include the digitization, encoding, and online publication of 40 volumes of Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly and the redesign and reimplementation of blakearchive.org, which took place December 12, 2016. The site redesign was completed in cooperation with the UNC Libraries, UNC Research Computing, and Design Hammer, an independent website development firm in Raleigh, NC.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Digital Innovation Lab. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. July 2014-July 2015.
Pursued independent research in the digital humanities, including separate projects related to Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and to nineteenth-century spiritualist practice. Provided 8-10 hours of support per week for projects in UNC's Digital Innovation Lab. Oversaw the "Year of the Newspaper": a year-long working group devoted to research and scholarship in the digitized North Carolina Historical Newspapers collection. Planned and oversaw half-day symposium "What Can You Do With 3 Million Pages of Digitized Newspapers?" featuring guest speaker Ryan Cordell. Taught undergraduate and graduate courses, in person and online, in Digital Humanities and American Studies.
Conceptualized, initiated, and oversaw a collaborative digital pedagogy project that resulted in a publicly available digital edition of the Prudence Person Scrapbook designed and annotated by UNC students. In phase 1 of the project, January-April 2014, students in ENGL 127: Writing About Literature researched the scrapbook's contents and created annotations for each page. In phase 2, students in ENGL 498: Independent Study revised existing annotations, added new ones, composed contextual essays, and prepared the project for publication. Students in ENGL 498 also maintained a blog at prudeperson.tumblr.com and Tweeted with the hashtag #prudeperson.
Graduate Fellow, PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge. Duke University. August 2013-May 2014.
Collaborated with fellow graduate students under the leadership of Professors Cathy Davidson and David Bell to explore issues and engage in professional development opportunities related to the digital humanities.
Project Manager, William Blake Archive. May 2007-December 2013.
Supervised editing and publication of 6-8 electronic editions of William Blake's work per year (52 editions total). Cooperated with the Archive's editors and Technical Editor to propose and implement changes to the Archive's technical infrastructure and project workflows. Oversaw between 12 and 17 graduate assistants in their publication prep duties. Planned and administered the Archive's annual "Blake Camp" strategy meeting at UNC's Institute for Arts and Humanities. Assisted with successful application for Preservation and Access grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities; composed interim and final progress reports.