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Annual Digital Humanities Lecturer

Nominations accepted in winter funding round only.

Description

The Simpson Center for the Humanities invites nominations of visiting scholars for the Annual Digital Humanities Lectureship.

The Simpson Center has long been committed to supporting visiting speakers in the broad fields of digital humanities, data science studies, and digital culture. Past speakers include Ryan Cordell (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Alan Liu (University of California, Santa Barbara), Tara McPherson (University of Southern California), Jentery Sayers (University of Victoria), Johanna Drucker (University of California, Los Angeles), Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman (Northeastern University), Matthew Kirschenbaum (University of Maryland), Anne Balsamo (University of Texas at Dallas), Jeffrey Schnapp (Harvard University), Michelle Caswell (University of California, Los Angeles), and Lauren Klein (Emory University).  

The Simpson Center gratefully acknowledges the support of a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant and the Mellon Foundation as well as many donors to the endowment which underwrites these annual lectures. Learn more about Digital Humanities programming at the Simpson Center.

Criteria

The Digital Humanities Annual Lecture will take place in the Winter Quarter of the academic year following the nomination.

Nominees should have excellent scholarly credentials, projects and publications at the leading edge of change in the digital humanities, broadly understood, and a demonstrated ability to engage with crossdisciplinary audiences.

Annual Digital Humanities Lectures should appeal to a broad campus audience—faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Speakers will be selected based on the merits of their scholarly work, their demonstrated ability to engage with their audiences, and their capacity to illuminate one or more areas of digital and data humanities of emerging or established importance at the University of Washington.  

Responsibilities of Nominating Faculty Members

Those nominating visiting Digital Humanities Lecturers are expected to participate in the visit as faculty hosts and to assist the Simpson Center in planning the visit, including meals with other faculty, class visits, and community connections.

Application Instructions

Complete the Nomination Form (the nomination form for the winter funding round will open on Monday, January 5). Upload to the form as a single, bundled .pdf the below materials:

Letter of Nomination. Letters may be co-written or co-signed, or letters of support from additional departments may be appended. Bundle the nomination materials into a single PDF (preferred) or Word file. Name your file [Your last name]-[Nominee’s Name]. Letter of nomination should address:

  • Nominee’s suitability for the Annual Digital Humanities Lecture
  • The significance of the nominee's intellectual contributions
  • The area of specialization within digital humanities that will be taken up by the speaker

A biographical sketch or CV of the nominee.

Questions

Please contact Eric Johnson (ejred@uw.edu), Simpson Center Digital Humanities Lead, with any questions.