Full Panel
Panelists
S. Hollis Clayson, Mary E. Finn, Josh Honn, Claire Stewart, Matthew Taylor, Harlan Wallach, Katrin Voelkner
Northwestern University
Biographies
S. Hollis Clayson (B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., UCLA) is a historian of nineteenth-century art, is Professor of Art History, Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities, a Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, and Director of the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern University.
Mary E. Finn is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Academic Affairs in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. She is also a Distinguished Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, where she teaches nineteenth-century British Literature.
Josh Honn is Digital Scholarship Fellow at Northwestern University Library’s Center for Scholarly Communication and Digital Curation. After earning Master’s degrees in American Studies (Lehigh University, 2003) and Library & Information Science (Dominican University, 2011), he now works with faculty and students on digital publishing and digital humanities research and pedagogy projects, including text analysis, web archiving, manuscript transcription, scholarly publishing, and more.
Claire Stewart directs the Center for Scholarly Communication and Digital Curation and is the head of the Digital Collections department of the Northwestern University Library. She is the library’s lead on scholarly communication issues, and is responsible for providing leadership in development of repository services, digital publishing and digital archiving projects.
Matthew Taylor is IT Director of the Multimedia Learning Center, a pedagogical technology center supporting the needs of undergraduate instruction for the languages and humanities departments in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. Matt regularly serves as a guest lecturer and teaching assistant to courses in Digital Art where he provides instruction on interactive new media programming using HTML5, JavaScript, Flash, and/or Processing.
Harlan Wallach, Media Technology Architect, is Head of the Northwestern University Information Technology (NUIT) Advanced Media Production Studio. Wallach has been engaged in the digitization, preservation and online publication of cultural heritage and humanities projects around the world. He works in the area of digital culture, humanities and publications, for both local and international initiatives.
Panel Description
“In digital scholarship, the conceptual and the technological aspects of work are intertwined.”[1]
Northwestern University recently received a grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to fund initiatives that will engage undergraduate students in humanities research projects. One important component of this effort is a summer workshop for faculty members who are interested in pursuing a digital humanities project with their undergraduate students. Realizing that the success of such a workshop depends on the collaboration of administrators, faculty, librarians, and technologists, the principal investigator for the grant has called on experts from several campus units involved in digital media and scholarship to plan this workshop as a group. It is one of the first concerted efforts at Northwestern to connect these different specialists for one project and the endeavor reflects the complicated fabric and dispersed nature of digital humanities projects at a large research university.
The panel will address the interplay of the different units involved and what methodologies are required by new these new forms of collaboration. It will explain the unique contribution each unit will make and the negotiations necessary to create a productive and cohesive digital humanities workshop.
The different units involved are:
• Northwestern University Library, Center for Scholarly Communication & Digital Curation
• Academic and Research Technologies: Advanced Media Production Studio
• The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
• Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences: Multimedia Learning Center and Weinberg Information Technology.
During the panel presentation, a member from each unit will elaborate on the expertise supplied by his or her unit and we will close the panel by illustrating how the product of this collaboration (the summer workshop) will function as a multiplier of digital humanities efforts throughout the university.
[1] CIC Digital Humanities Summit Summary (September 2012), p. 7.