Introduction My data project is, in part, a response to a project over at Joyce Goes Digital, a website from Boston College that seeks to approach the work of Joyce through a “digital” or “digital humanities” lens. The specific project I am responding to focuses on the ellipses that occur throughout James Joyce’s Dubliners. The […]

I recently attended the workshop “So you want to make a map: Starting a GIS project” with Javier Otero Peña and Kelsey Chatlost. Although I have always had an interest in mapping projects, I have never attempted one myself, mostly because I didn’t know where to start. This workshop, despite some of its flaws, pointed […]

In the first chapter of Planned Obsolesce, Kathleen Fitzpatrick discusses peer review. She begins with a summation of its history, tracing it back to seventeenth-century censorship; knowledge production was relegated to various “societies” (such as the Royal Society of London) which were funded, in part, by the state, and therefore peer review was a tool […]

My experience as an Editor-at-Large for DHNow was overwhelming positive. I had gone into the process with little knowledge about PressForward, or the forms in which editing could take in digital humanities context, but the staff immediately caught me up on what I needed to know. The content that most interested me seemed to be […]