Digital Humanities Projects
The Simpson Center has supported major digital projects over the past decade. They include web-based archives of important historical material, digital editions of canonical English literature, and an interactive digital supplement to a print book. These are some of the major projects we've supported:
- Sound and Images: Video Essay Workshop
- The Kivalina Archive: Applying the Climate Humanities Across Multiple Publics
- Beyond the Cold War: The Afterlife of Indo-Soviet Literary Exchange
- Activist Poetics in the Digital Age Symposium
- Women Who Rock is an oral history archive hosted by the UW Libraries Digital Initiatives Program; annual participant-driven conference and film festival; and project-based coursework for graduate student and undergraduates.
- The Many Poems of Baki textual analysis workshop
- Textual & Digital Studies Graduate Certificate
- Lake Union Laboratory
- Producing a Worthy Illness
- Affect & Audience in the Digital Age
- SeaTac-Seattle Minimum Wage Campaign History Project
- Seattle’s Freeway Revolt
- Demystifying Digital Humanities Workshop Series presented guided introductions to the points of intersection between traditional and digital humanities.
- Scale & Value: New and Digital Approaches to Literary History - a Spring 2015 conference and forthcoming publication in Modern Language Quarterly examining computational methods for literary analysis.
- Svoboda Diaries "Newbook" Project, an extensive collection of personal diaries kept by members of a family living in Baghdad, Iraq, during the 19th century.
- Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project, a widely used digital archive that has driven civic debates and influenced public policy.
- Keywords in American Cultural Studies is a hybrid print-digital publication examining nodal points in many of the most dynamic and vexed discussions of political and social life.
- The digital text of the A Version of the medieval poem Piers Plowman.