Brown Bag: The Digital Humanities as PhD Practice

The Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory at the University of Victoria (http://etcl.uvic.ca/) invites you to attend the first meeting of the 2015-16 Brown Bag Speaker Series. This is a series of informal lunchtime seminars for faculty and graduate students in the Faculty of Humanities and across the university to discuss issues in digital literacy, digital humanities, and the changing face of research, scholarship, and teaching in our increasingly digital world. For an hour once per month, we meet to hear from an invited speaker, share ideas, and build knowledge.

On Wednesday, 7th October, from 12 until 1 p.m., Bassam Chiblak, Lindsey Seatter, and Caroline Winter, PhD students in the Department of English, will be presenting a panel entitled, “The Digital Humanities in PhD Practice.” Details are below. Please share this announcement with anyone who might be interested in attending.

Wednesday, October 7th—12 – 1 p.m.
MacLaurin D115, University of Victoria

Abstract: This panel of English doctoral students will discuss the role of DH in the humanities PhD degree. Each panelist will speak on the extent to which they are incorporating DH methods and practices in their degree and research. Their presentations will also look to the future of DH in humanities graduate studies, answering the question, where does DH go from here?

Bios:
Bassam Chiblak is a second year PhD student at the University of Victoria whose research focuses on Victorian illustrations, periodicals, and novels. As a former RA at the Centre for Digital Humanities at Ryerson University, he marked up the poetry in volumes 7 and 8 of the Yellow Book following TEI protocol for the Yellow Nineties Online, a project co-edited by Drs. Dennis Denisoff and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra.
Lindsey Seatter is a second year doctoral student in the English department. Her research is focused on exploring the patterns across Austen’s print and manuscript novels through distant and digital methods. Specifically, Lindsey is interested in interrogating the evolution of Austen’s narrative style and how these changes reflect the shifting social structures of Regency-era Britain.
Caroline Winter is a PhD candidate at the University of Victoria. She studies British Romantic literature, specializing in Gothic literature and economics.

Bring your lunch and join us to discuss digital technologies and research in our community!