The Humanities Digital Workshop will be debuting a weekly drop-in clinic for graduate students who use, or would like to use, digital or computational elements in their humanities-based research.
Summer Fellowships
The Humanities Digital Workshop invites applications from undergraduate and graduate students at Washington University in St. Louis for its summer fellowships.
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September 21, 2017
Graduate Certificate and Undergraduate Minor in Digital Humanities
Project work in the HDW can count toward the requirements for a graduate certificate or an undergraduate minor in Data Science
March 28, 2016
Early Modern Print
Principal Investigator: Anupam Basu, Washington University in St. Louis. Early Modern Print: Text Mining Early Modern English offers a range of tools for the computational exploration and analysis of English print culture before 1700.
October 9, 2017
German Jane Eyre, 1848-1914
Principal Investigator: Lynne Tatlock, Washington University in St. Louis. One year after its first publication in London in 1847, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre first appeared in both English and in German translation in the German-language print domain, and over the next sixty years the novel circulated widely in the German-language print domain…
August 1, 2013
City on a Hill Archive
Principal Investigator: Abram Van Engen, Washington University in St. Louis. This project tracks every use of the phrase “city on a hill” and its variants from 1600 to the present in order to find out what this phrase means, in what context it most often appears, when it begins referring to America, and what kind of America it identifies.
March 21, 2016
The Meters of Roman Comedy
Timothy J. Moore
Timothy J. Moore's database, The Meters of Roman Comedy, is now available.
June 20, 2013
Gender Violence Database
Principal Investigator: Jami Ake. The Gender Violence Database is an accessible searchable tool designed for researchers, practitioners, and the general public interested in the multidisciplinary field of Violence Against Women.
February 21, 2017
West River Inscriptions project
Principal Investigator: Steven B. Miles, Washington University in St. Louis. During the past five centuries, migrant Cantonese (natives of the Pearl River delta in China’s Guangdong Province) have created a diaspora with trajectories spanning not only vast parts of China but also stretching across five continents. This project is developing a database intended to help researchers trace the commercial networks that supported one of these diasporic trajectories, upstream along the West River (Xijiang 西江) basin in southern China.
August 22, 2013
The James Merrill Digital Archive
Materials for The Book of Ephraim
Intended as a resource for scholars, students, writers, and teachers, the James Merrill Digital Archive currently provides digital access to a small cross-section from the James Merrill Papers housed in Special Collections at Washington University
June 22, 2013
Rethinking the History of German Literature 1731-1864
Principal Investigator: Matt Erlin, Washington University in St. LouisThis project employs the techniques of probabilistic topic modeling to test a set of longstanding assumptions about the periodization of German literary history.
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June 21, 2013
The Spenser Archive
Principal Investigators: Joseph Loewenstein, Washington University in St. Louis, et al.The Spenser Archive is the digital component of Oxford University Press's forthcoming Collected Works of Edmund Spenser.
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