Tara from English at Queen’s will be joining us!

I do a lot of work with text/illustration interaction, and it would be fascinating to learn ways to further my research using digital tools and ways to broaden my research audience.

Katie will be joining us from English at Queen’s!

I am relatively new to the practices of digital humanities, so I am looking forward to learning more about the different past, present and future projects related to the field. I am especially interested in the way text interacts with image, and how that relationship changes in relation to its medium – i.e. material print or digital publication – especially in terms of the reader/viewer experience of the object. On the practical side, I would like to learn more about book digitization, and am interested in the various ways the “experience” of a printed object is translated to the digital form…I am primarily interested in Romantic literature with a focus on late-18th/early-19th century scientific theories of the individual mind (specifically, the mind during sleep). I have always been interested in computer technologies, and I have recently become more intrigued by the impact digital publication has on the study of literature. Most of my free time is spent making my cats listen to me recite the same 80 lines from Paradise Lost.

Sarah from English at Queen’s:

I am currently helping to manage a larger project that surrounds my dissertation on Zimbabwean writer Yvonne Vera, whose personal papers I archived during my masters degree in the Public Texts program at Trent University. Rooted in theory about personal archives and postmodern African writing, I am interested in developing archival practices that challenge the economy of transactionality that archival practice enshrines, and in the case of Yvonne Vera, in opening up her archives to her complex articulation of documentation, belonging, and possession. I am currently in the process of facilitating the creation of an Yvonne Vera website that will build a foundation upon which various projects may be developed; however, the initial goal of the website is to make the archival material available to scholars. THATCamp offers me an opportunity to gain insight about collaborative project management and strategies for accessing skills and digital tools.

Melissa from Art History at Queen’s:

I’m really interested in incorporating technology into the dissemination of research. In particular I’m interested in tools that will help me create different modes of transmission for my work that include image, text, music, video, etc. In the past I’ve taken part in the Digital Humanities Summer Institute and worked in digital pedagogy, and it continues to be important to my teaching practice…I’m really interested in how we can use digital tools to make rare materials more accessible and how they change our interaction with objects of art.

From Joanne, Gender Studies at Queen’s:

I am nebulously wondering about social media–quite broadly defined– and it’s role in identity and community formation, specifically both its role in various, potentially resistant, alt subcultures, such as the feminist blogosphere, youth youtube communities, fandom /fic, as well as in violent manifestations of cybermobbing and troll culture. I really want to hear whatever anyone has to say about any of it and bounce around ideas with others.

Announcing a new THATCamp! More news coming soon. Read more about other THATCamps at thatcamp.org.