
In a conversation with our editor, Elaine Treharne reflects on the synergy between Medieval studies and technological innovation, pathbreaking student research at CESTA, and the challenges digital humanists navigate at Stanford.
In a conversation with our editor, Elaine Treharne reflects on the synergy between Medieval studies and technological innovation, pathbreaking student research at CESTA, and the challenges digital humanists navigate at Stanford.
In a conversation with our editor, Matthew Warner and Nichole Nomura reflect on their work at the Stanford Literary Lab, the importance of collaboration and technical skills, and the future of the digital humanities curriculum.
Jessica Otis from George Mason University and Dagomar Degroot from Georgetown University discuss the intricate relationship between catastrophe and data through early modern sources.
What do we make of the quantifying impulse in response to danger? What of the affective affordances of putting danger in the form of numbers or visualizations? How do divides in data literacy set up stark material divides when data represents life-threatening dangers?
Brault examines the promise of data as the opportunity to examine methods, to do something new and to vary methods, to scale claims and the type and amount of evidence presented to substantiate them, and to deepen and complicate arguments.
Giovanna Ceserani’s latest book, A World Made by Travel: The Digital Grand Tour, is an open-access, digital publication released in June 2024 by Stanford University Press. This digital publication transforms the foundational Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701–1800 (published by the Paul Mellon Centre and compiled from the Brinsley Ford Archive held at the PMC) into a rich, interactive interface. In celebration of Open Access Week, Ceserani writes about her motivation to publish her book in an open-access, digital format.
Yousuf Saeed, Co-founder and project director of Tasveer Ghar, and International Visiting Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, reflects on digitizing and archiving South Asian bazaar art, and the question of the intellectual property and community ownership of popular art at Tasveer Ghar.
In a conversation with our editor, Nicole Coleman reflects on her career at Stanford's Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis and the promises and challenges of interdisciplinary teaching and research.
In a conversation with our editor, Professors Franz Fischer and Giovanna Ceserani reflect on their careers in the digital humanities and the various intersections between digital, public, and traditional humanities initiatives at the university and beyond.
In a conversation with our editor, Professor Alice Staveley reflects on her career at the intersection of archival studies and the digital humanities, including the new possibilities digital publishing technology can open up for scholarship on modernist writers.