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Bringing The New Variorum Shakespeare Online

DH 2023, Graz

Katayoun Torabi presented a short paper titled “Bringing The New Variorum Shakespeare Online” on the front- and backend features of the Digital NVS at this year’s Digital Humanities conference, in the Literary Challenges session on July 14th. The paper was co-authored by Laura Mandell and Bryan Tarpley and published in the Book of Abstracts.

Announcing Interim Director for CoDHR: Dr. Maura Ives

The College of Arts & Sciences has announced the appointment of Dr. Maura Ives as Interim Director of the Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR).

Dr. Ives has been an advocate for Digital Humanities (DH) at Texas A&M for nearly two decades. In 2009, she assembled and led the interdisciplinary team that identified DH as a “landmark research area” for Texas A&M and secured initial funding for the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture (IDHMC).  A specialist in Victorian literature, critical bibliography and textual scholarship, Dr. Ives is the author or editor of four books and numerous articles in her research fields and has received research fellowships from the Princeton University Library, the Bibliographical Society of America, and the Bibliographical Society of the United Kingdom. For the past seven years, she has served as the Department Head of English.

She will begin her new position in CoDHR on August 1, 2023.

The Digital NVS Presented at ACH 2023 in Virtual World

Katayoun Torabi presented the New Variorum Shakespeare project in a virtual poster session hosted by Work Adventure at the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) on July 1, 2023. The poster presentation included the NVS promotional video and the NVS website.

The Digital New Variorum Shakespeare to be Presented at ACH 2023

We are happy to announce that the New Variorum Shakespeare project will be presented in a poster session at the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) in July 2023! This year’s virtual ACH conference emphasizes “social justice in multiple contexts: anti-racist work, Indigenous studies, cultural and critical ethnic studies, intersectional feminism, postcolonial and decolonial studies, disability studies, and queer studies,” and prioritizes multilingualism in the Digital Humanities.

“Engaging Students and Empowering Research with the Digital NVS” Workshop at The Fifty-First Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA)

The Fifty-First Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) is being held in Minneapolis, Minnesota from Wednesday, 29 March to Saturday, 1 April 2023. Dr. Katayoun Torabi will host a workshop titled “Engaging Students and Empowering Research with the Digital NVS” at SAA on April 1st, which will feature teaching modules developed for a Shakespeare course that utilizes the NVS. These modules, which were created as part of the research needed by Dr. Anne Burdick (NVS Designer) and Dr. Bryan Tarpley (NVS Developer) to design and program the NVS, are also featured in a book chapter that Drs. Mandell, Burdick, Tarpley, and Torabi authored, titled “Using Data and Design to Bring the New Variorum Shakespeare Online” in The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface (available for purchase in hardcover and ebook formats Here). Please join us for the workshop if you are attending SAA this year! The full conference program can be accessed Here.

DH 2023: Collaboration as Opportunity

Katayoun Torabi will present a short paper on the front- and backend features of the Digital NVS at this year’s Digital Humanities conference, to be held in Graz, Austria from July 10th through the 14th. The annual Digital Humanities conference is the largest event of the international DH community “and unites scholars from across the globe, presenting them with a unique opportunity for the exchange of their work and ideas and the fostering of future collaborations.” This year’s conference focuses on transdisciplinary and transnational collaboration and will feature papers, roundtables, and poster sessions from around the world.

Team Member Update

The New Variorum Shakespeare project welcomes a new student researcher to the team for this academic semester, Mounika Balivada (CS, Graduate), and welcomes back Jade Gooden (Anthropology, Undergraduate).