Matthew Ritger
Matthew Ritger works on English literature and culture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His dissertation, Objects of Correction: Literature and the Birth of Modern Punishment, is about the relation between literature and carceral institutions during the Reformation. In 2018-2019 this project was awarded the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton’s highest prize for a graduate student.
Matthew's experience at the Center for Digital Humanities changed the way he conceives of his research and teaching, especially by helping him to think harder in advance about the kinds of questions he asks in his scholarly work, and how those questions might engage different disciplines or speak to wider audiences.
Related posts
Congratulations to Valedictorian Jin Yun Chow '17 and Salutatorian Grant Storey '17
7 June 2017
Congrats are in order for two stellar digital humanists: Jin Yun Chow, the valedictorian of Princeton University’s Class of 2017 and comparative literature concentrator, also worked at the Center for Digital Humanities, on both our Mapping Expatriate Paris and Derrida's Margins projects. She will delivered the valedictory address at the University’s Commencement ceremony on Tuesday, June 6. After graduation, Chow will pursue a Ph.D. in comparative literature at Stanford University, where she plans to study digital humanities and European-Chinese literary relations. Read more here!Announcing the CDH's 2017-2018 Sponsored Projects
5 April 2017
The CDH is delighted to announce our project slate for 2017-18! Our team has more than doubled since this time last year and with new programmers, developers, designers, we are enormously excited about the additional support we are able to offer our returning projects. Our four sponsored projects are all returning from previous grant years and we look forward to seeing them through to completion. In addition, we welcome our individual project grants from graduate students and postdocs in Civil Engineering, English, History, and Near Eastern Studies who will also meet together as a cohort dedicated to database design. You can read more about each project in more detail via our “Research” page.Spring course descriptions
19 February 2017
During Add-Drop period, take a look at the undergraduate course offerings related to digital humanities. Some of these courses offer the opportunity to develop technical skill sets applicable to digital humanities research in computer science and linguistics, while others probe into the media-dominated era we live in that allowed for the rise of digital humanities as a discipline. All of the following courses are eligible as electives for the digital track of the Humanities certificate program (https://humstudies.princeton.edu/certificate/#plan).