CHA/CRDDS Faculty Fellowship in Digital Humanities and Arts
The Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA) and Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship (CRDDS) partnered on a three-year fellowship program (2021-2022 to 2023-2024) to support faculty working in digital humanities and arts.
About the program: All CU Boulder faculty (tenure-track, tenured, instructors, and senior instructors) interested in applying computational methods to or multimodal presentation of humanities and arts-related research questions were invited to apply for a CHA/CRDDS Faculty Fellowship in Digital Humanities and Arts from 2021 to 2024. Fellowships consisted of up to a two-course reduction to enable the faculty member to focus on their project/research during a single semester. We encouraged applications from faculty across schools and colleges at CU Boulder, including from disciplines outside of humanities and arts; however, projects had to engage with arts and humanities archives/perspectives/theories/narratives/methodologies in a substantial way, as well as digital, computational, and/or multimodal tools and practices.The selection committee considered the intellectual merit of the project, its connection to the humanities and arts, the overall excellence of the applicant’s academic record, and the timeliness of the project in the applicant’s career.
Thank you to all participants in this program. The CHA/CRDDS Fellowship in Digital Humanities and Arts will not be accepting future applications.
2023-2024 Digital Humanities and Arts Faculty Fellow
David Glimp
Department of English
Drama, Romance and Political Life in the English Renaissance: A Computational Approach
This project utilizes computational methods for text analysis to augment our understanding of the politics of Renaissance English literature. Focusing on two important forms of literary production—drama and proto-novelistic romances—this study examines the usefulness of computational approaches for deepening our knowledge about the complex interplay between political controversy and artistic practice in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. The proposed study will strive to understand: 1) when and how distinct political vocabularies and concepts develop in the available corpora; 2) which kinds of political ideas are most prevalent on stage and in romance; 3) differences between the political dimensions of romance and drama; and 4) to what extent literary works lead, lag, or parallel the development of political discourses. Drawing on new methods for textual inquiry this research aims to augment our understanding of how political discourse—ideas about the nature and scope of sovereign authority, about the nature and responsibility of government, and about identity and community—transform across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and interact with Renaissance English literature.
2022-2023 Digital Humanities and Arts Faculty Fellow
Emilie Upczak
Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts
Feminism and Queer Identity in a 1970’s Commune: The Ann Roy Collection
The Rare and Distinctive Collections was gifted Ann Roy’s collection of work in 2012. The substantial and uniquely diverse materials cover Roy’s life as a young girl in Tulsa, Oklahoma; as the wife of an historian writing about the Ute Indian Territory; as an ex-patriot living in Mexico and raising two sons; as an instructor at Ivan Illich's center in Cuernavaca, and as a feminist working to bridge the cultures of Mexico and the United States. The collection includes Super-8 films that were taken in Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico where Roy lived in the 1970’s, a center for international spiritualists seeking answers and exploring identity, often through performance and under the influence of hallucinogens. The Super-8s also point to the emergence of a queer community. The final project will be a Digital Exhibition that will include audio recordings, digitized films, photographs, drawings, clothing designs, writings, lectures from the collection while giving a historical overview of the group of people, location, and movements within the collection, and engage creative projects and ask questions through the making and presentation of, experimental films, scholarly articles and interviews.
2021-2022 Digital Humanities and Arts Faculty Fellow
Vilja Hulden
Department of History
Speaking to the State: Representation at U.S. Congressional Hearings since 1877 asks who gets to "speak to the state," and what they say when they do. It investigates patterns in representation at U.S. Congressional hearings, the most accessible form of (federal) lobbying. The project creates a computational analysis of a data set covering over a million instances of testimony at hearings, analyzing the metadata (name, organization, committee...) as well as the full text of testimonies. To maintain a grounding in historical content and existing scholarship, the project focuses on three case studies: business vs. labor, women's groups before and after suffrage, and hearings on the environment around the time of the beginning of the modern environmental movement. The final product will be an open-source, freely available digital publication aimed at scholarly and general audiences in equal measure.