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6 Jul 2015

Digital Poetry: Comparative Textual Performances in Trans-medial Spaces

By |2015-12-14T22:01:55-05:00Jul 6, 2015|

This was a project of Spring 2010 MITH Winnemore Digital Dissertation Fellow Mirona Magearu. Her dissertation, 'Digital Poetry: Comparative Textual Performances in Trans-medial Spaces,' extends work on notions of space and performance developed by media and poetry theorists. Magearu analyzed how contemporary technologies re-define the writing space of digital poetry making by investigating the configuration and the function of this space in the writing of the digital poem.

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2 Jul 2015

Electronic Skin: Community Building and Virtual Embodiment

By |2017-02-05T21:25:33-05:00Jul 2, 2015|

This was a project of Spring 2011 MITH Winnemore Digital Dissertation Fellow Maria Velazquez. Her dissertation, "Electronic Skin: Community Building and Virtual Embodiment" investigated the creative processes through which citizens are made, with particular attention to the role that technologies like blogging, virtual reality, and electronic activism foster the use of “imaginative embodiment” in creating stories of citizenship, selfhood, and action.

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26 Jun 2015

The Portinari Project

By |2017-02-05T21:25:34-05:00Jun 26, 2015|

The Portinari Project was one of the initial MITH Networked Associate Fellowship projects. MITH worked with João Candido Portinari, son of the late painter Candido Portinari, on a digital resource to make his work and legacy available broadly on the web.

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16 Jun 2015

Nannie Helen Burroughs Electronic Editions

By |2017-02-05T21:25:34-05:00Jun 16, 2015|

This was a Winnemore Digital Dissertation Fellowship project of Michele Mason in 2006, for which Michele produced a scholarly electronic edition of several key texts by Civil Rights leader Nannie Helen Burroughs, highlighting her influence as a leader of African-American women, a political organizer, and a columnist in the African-American press.

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16 Jun 2015

The Thomas MacGreevy Archive

By |2020-08-06T17:01:31-04:00Jun 16, 2015|

The Thomas MacGreevy Archive is a long-term, interdisciplinary research project that explores the life, writings, and relationships of the Irish poet and critic, Thomas MacGreevy (1893-1967). The project is committed to investigating the intersections between traditional humanities research and digital technologies.

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4 Jun 2015

John Milton’s Comus

By |2017-02-05T21:25:35-05:00Jun 4, 2015|

This was a project of a group of Networked Associate Fellowships awarded to three English graduate students: Helen L. Hull, Meg F. Pearson, and Erin A. Sadlack. The goal was to construct a significant scholarly online resource for studying John Milton’s A Maske, familiarly known as Comus. The choice of this particular work was made due to its various interpretations and forms (text, hypertext, pictoral and musical). The site consists of four core content sections: a textual archive, multimedia representations, critical essays, and a bibliography.

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3 Jun 2015

Digital Diasporas

By |2015-12-14T21:35:32-05:00Jun 3, 2015|

Digital Diasporas was the first conference of its kind to bring together to discuss on-going projects and also debate the theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical issues raised by the intersection of the fields of Digital Humanities and African American/African Diaspora Studies.

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2 Jun 2015

Irish Resources in the Humanities

By |2019-08-14T11:38:43-04:00Jun 2, 2015|

Irish Resources in the Humanities was developed in 1999 by Dr. Susan Schreibman as a Gateway to sites on the World Wide Web that contain substantial content in the various disciplines of the humanities in the area of Irish Studies. As a rule, commercial sites are not linked.

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