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  • Loyolans During the Covid-19 Crisis

    To document life through this historic crisis, Loyola University Archives is seeking the Loyola community’s experiences of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Students, alumni, faculty, staff, and administrators to keep a journal and to submit any stories, videos, photographs, art, or reflections; ranging from direct observations to artistic reflections on topics such as working from home, the shift to online teaching/learning, changes to daily life, or social distancing. These items will be kept in the University Archives for future generations to experience. Click to participate and submit.

  • Dr. Melissa Bradshaw Receives ORS Grant for "The Amy Lowell Letters Project"

    Congratulations to Dr. Melissa Bradshaw for receiving a Research Support Grant from the Office of Research Services. The grant will go towards "The Amy Lowell Letters Project," a digital edition of Lowell's correspondences.

  • Useful Resources for Online Teaching

    We have curated a limited list of resources for academics now rushing to moving their classes online; from open-access reading material, to shared annotation tools, community access, and more. Take a quick look.

  • COVID-19 Update

    In keeping with the latest University-wide directives to reduce the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), all CTSDH events for the Spring 2020 semester, including Lunchtime Lectures and Workshops, have been canceled.

  • The Amy Lowell Letters Project: Digitizing a Career in Poetry

    On the Wednesday following spring break, Dr. Melissa Bradshaw from Loyola's Department of English will deliver a lecture on her work for The Amy Lowell Letters Project, an open-access, digital scholarly edition of the letters of American poet, editor, and critic Amy Lowell (1874–1925). The event will run from 12:30 to 1:30 PM and will be held in the conference room on the 3rd floor of Loyola Hall.
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  • East Asian Textiles Launch

    Please join us for the launch of the East Asian Textiles project. Wednesday, March 18, 12:30-1:30 pm at the May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection (Mundelein 419).

  • Dr. Marta Werner Awarded ORS Grant for "Dickinson's Birds: A Public Listening Project"

    Congratulations to Dr. Marta Werner, Martin J. Svaglic Chair in Textual Studies, for receiving a Research Support Grant from Loyola's Office of Research Services.The grant will fund her digital project, "Dickinson's Birds: A Public Listening Project."

  • Digital Humanities 101

    Join the Digital Humanities Student Association for DH 101, where we'll survey digital editions, timelines, mapping, and more. Students, staff, faculty, and community members from any discipline are welcome; no experience necessary. It will be held on Wednesday, February 26, 2020, from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm at Loyola Hall 318. Please RSVP to luc.dhsa@gmail.com

  • Fall 2020 Applications now open

    Applications for the MA in Digital Humanities program at LUC are now open. Apply now!

  • Top Reasons Why Technology Needs the Humanities

    As the need and purpose of humanities education raises questions in academia and outside, there is one sector looking at its usefulness; technology. See why two seemingly different branches of education are made for each other.

  • Upcoming: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science 2019

    DHCS 2019 is fast approaching! As last year's hosts, we are excited to see how University of Chicago extends the conversation about the current state of DH. The conference will be held in the David and Reva Logan Center, November 9-10. Make sure to RSVP and we will see you there!
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  • LECTURE

    The 2019/20 Edward Surtz Memorial Lecture to be held in late February

    Founded in 1973, the Edward Surtz Memorial Lecture year after year has featured innovative trans-historical and cross-disciplinary work in the humanities. Save the date, February 26th, 2020, to participate in the continuation of this tradition.
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  • Call for Papers

    Call for Abstracts: 9th Annual Digital Ethics Symposium

    The Center for Digital Ethics & Policy at Loyola University Chicago (digitalethics.org) will be holding its 9th annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics on November 7th & 8th, 2019. Abstracts for papers related to digital ethics should be submitted by May 20th, 2019.
  • COMMUNITY INITIATIVE

    It's time for the Girls Who Code Fall 2019 Semester at CTSDH!

    After securing two grants last year, we are so excited to announce the new session of Girls Who Code, which begins in September. Details inside!
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  • ANNUAL REPORT

    Read the 2018-19 Annual Report

    From new graduating MA students to major new grants, the CTSDH had a banner year in 2018-19. Learn more about all that our research center and graduate program accomplished!
  • Workshops

    Unessays, Data Analysis, and 360 VR

    We expanded our research toolkit this year! Taught by talented scholars, our workshops provided hands-on training and discussion for interested students, faculty, staff, and members of the community.
  • Lunchtime Lectures

    A Year of Lunchtime Lectures

    Lunchtime Lectures provide talented scholars with the opportunity to share their Digital Humanities work with interested students, faculty, staff, and members of the community over lunch throughout the academic year.
  • CTSDH People

    Loyola Women in STEM

    Congratulations to CTSDH Fellow Eunice Montenegro for being featured in this story, highlighting the different ways female students excel in STEM fields at Loyola!
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  • Publication

    Caughie Co-Authors Digital Humanities Article

    Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Caughie, Director of the Man Into Woman Project, and her co-author Dr. Sabine Meyer on the publication of their article based on the scholarly edition of Man Into woman. The article is titled "From Work to Tech: Digital Archives and Queer Narratives." Click to read the article.
  • Essay

    New Essay on Digital Pedagogy by Loyola Students

    "Digital Paxton: Collaborative Construction with Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Collections" by Loyola doctoral student Kelly Schmidt, recent graduate Kate Johnson, and scholar Will Fenton reveals the pedagogical possibilities of digital archives.
  • Major Grant

    Loyola Awards Grant to Commemorate 150-year History

    The Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, Public History Program, and the University Libraries are the recipients of a three-year grant to help prepare for the university’s 150th anniversary celebration which takes place in 2020.
  • CONFERENCE

    University of Chicago to host Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science 2019

    The Call for Papers was just issued for DHCS 2019 to be held Nov 9-10, 2019 at the David and Reva Logan Center at the University of Chicago. Click through for more information.
  • GRANT

    Loyola and Shepherd Universities Awarded Grant to Create American Revolution Loyalist Database

    The Omohundro Institute for Early American Studies has awarded Kyle Roberts, PhD, Loyola University Chicago, and Benjamin Bankhurst, PhD, Shepherd University, with a Lapidus Digital Collections Fellowship for 2019 to provide undergraduate students a chance to develop in-demand skills in the Digital Humanities and create a website that will give online access to rare manuscript records.
  • GRANT

    Loyola Awarded 2019-20 AAUW Community Action Grant for Girls Who Code

    The American Association of University Women has awarded Elizabeth Hopwood, PhD, Loyola University Chicago with a Community Action Grant for 2019-20 to provide sixth to twelfth-grade girls with free classes in coding and computer skills through its Girls Who Code chapter.
  • RESEARCH

    New Article by Paul Eggert and Desmond Schmidt on Harpur Critical Archive

    Learn about how this project required them to reject traditional encoding in XML-TEI in favor of other solutions to represent 2700 versions of his 700 poems in newspaper and manuscript form.
  • Article

    'Tactical History' and the Digital Archive

    Karen Sieber MA '18 (History) reflects on the work that went into creating Visualizing the Red Summer digital archive, a comprehensive digital archive, map, and timeline of riots and lynchings across the United States in 1919.