2015 Updates
The first of the digital annexes that I'm working on is the canonical Cent mille milliards de poèmes (A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems) by Oulipo co-founder, Raymond Queneau. The text is inspired by combinatorics…
The digital humanities landscape has changed substantially in the past year. Google Earth, the most user-friendly and widely available GIS-style platform, will cease operation at the end of 2015. Some of its services wi…
The Blue Mountain bibliographic editing team has recently finished revising metadata for the French modernist magazine SIC (1916-1919), one of the 34 avant-garde periodicals in the Blue Mountain Project digital archive. This…
When I tell people I’m writing my dissertation on 20th century amateur minstrel shows in the United States, I am typically met with one of two reactions: shock that these performances occurred with such frequency (and …
This year, Blue Mountain is going to flood the library.
The question wasn’t exactly new. I had heard ones like it before, in emails and at conferences: When did scholars start using letters to indicate rhyme schemes?
This is an exciting time for the folks working on Mapping Expatriate Paris. Thanks to the efforts of Carl Adair and Ellie Green, we recently completed the first major phase of our project, taking down a complete diplomatic t…
Monday April 13th, 4:30-5:30pm, CDH In the changing environment of higher education, positions at the intersection of teaching, research, and administration, commonly referred to as “alt-ac,” are of growing impor…
The first session of the Digital Humanities: Teaching and Research symposium is well underway and featured lively presentations from Jo Guldi (Brown University), Nicole Coleman (Stanford University), Matthew Jones (Columbia …