The Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory at the University of Victoria (http://etcl.uvic.ca/) invites you to attend the second of four sessions in the 2014-15 The “Nuts and Bolts” of Digital Humanities, a discussion series that focuses on the pragmatics of DH research.
On Friday, 21 November, from 3:00-4:00, Stephen Ross will be leading a discussion on grant applications for digital humanities entitled “Can you get What you Want? Grants and DH Projects.”
Details are below. Please share this announcement with anyone who might be interested in attending.
Friday, 21 November
3:00-4:00
University Club (Lounge)
University of Victoria
Abstract: Dr. Stephen Ross will talk about what has worked and what does not work for getting grant funding to support DH projects. Sources from within the university and outside it will be considered. Dr. Ross will also deal with what NOT to do and common mistakes people make in both DH-specific and non-DH projects that include digital elements. The session will focus in particular upon building strong connections across the campus and on how to frame deliverables so that they are both practical and appealing to funding agencies.
Bio: Dr. Stephen Ross (http://www.ghostprof.org) is an Associate Professor of English and Cultural, Social, and Political Thought at the University of Victoria. His ongoing research engagements include serving as General Editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism online. This comprehensive resource will include a faceted search interface based on RDF and Linked Open Data through the Linked Modernisms Project, for which Dr. Ross was awarded in 2014 a five-year SSHRC Insight Grant. Dr. Ross is also the Principal Investigator of the $2.2 million Modernist Versions Project (MVP), a digital humanities research project with activities devoted to generating data from modernist literary texts, devising novel methodologies for versioning texts that exist in multiple witnesses, developing tools for such work, and producing digital editions of modernist novels. The MVP, currently based in the Maker Lab in the Humanities at UVic, received a Partnership Development Grant from SSHRC in 2012. Dr. Ross is an associated researcher with the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab.