Graduate Students

Our students enter into the MA in DH program from a variety of academic backgrounds, including literary studies, history, library and information science, and computer science. Their goals are both academic and professional. What they have in common is an interest in how the digital creates opportunities to shape and create structures of knowledge and information systems, and an investment in interdisciplinary scholarship. They gain a theoretical understanding of how technology shapes our lived experiences, combined with practical experiences of making and building. Our students move into careers in both the private and academic sector, including education, libraries, archives, museums, and PhD programs. 

Meet the Graduate Students


Email id: foke2@luc.edu 
Research Interest: Digital Pedagogy, Computational Textual Studies, and Manuscript Studies.
Current Projects: Emily Dickinson Digital Archive
 Individual Course Of Study:
Spring 2022
DIGH 402 Digital Humanities Design; COMP 317 Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Computing; ENG 303 Grammar: Principles & Pedagogy
Fall 2022
DIGH 400 Introduction to Digital Humanities Research; DIGH 401 Introduction to Computing/COMP 125 Visual Information Processing; ENG 413 Textual Criticism
Spring 2023 
DIGH 501 Digital Humanities Project; HISt 401 Special Topics/Seminar
Fall 2023
DIGH 500 DH Practicum; DIGH 403 Web Application Development
Professional Activity: Digital Humanities Association of Nigeria; Society for Textual Scholarship; Pragmatics Association of Nigeria;  
Professional website: https://felixoke.com/ 

Full Name: Brianna Wright
Research Interest: social network analysis, modernist literature, anti-colonial literature, data visualizations
Current Projects: Graduate Digital Systems Assistant at LUC Library. Projects include: Lakota People’s Law Project Digital Archive, Lili Elbe Digital Archive, LUC Libraries Alumni Authors Project
Individual Course Of Study: 
Fall 2022: Intro to Digital Humanities Research, Textual Studies, Intro to Computing.  
Spring 2023: Intro to Digital Humanities Design, Intro to Object Oriented Programming, Social Legal and Ethical Issues Involving Computing
Fall 2023: DIGH 500 DH Practicum; DIGH 403 Web Application Development
Professional Activity: B.A. in English and Gender and Women’s Studies at University of Illinois at Chicago

Email id: rde1@luc.edu 

Research Interest: Digital Humanities, Data Visualization, Manuscript Studies, and Human-Computer Interaction

Current Projects: Emily Dickinson Textual Variants, Gerard Manley Hopkins' Poetry, Weinreb Eating Disorders Project

Individual Course Of Study:

Fall 2022: DIGH 400 Introduction to Digital Humanities Research; COMP 170 Intro Obj-Oriented Prog; ENG 413 Textual Criticism

Spring 2023: DIGH 402 Digital Humanities Design; COMP 417 Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Computing; COMP 441 Human-Computer Interaction

Fall 2023: DIGH 500 DH Practicum; DIGH 403 Web Application Development

Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ria-de-b6161b235/ 

Professional Activity: Society for Textual Scholarship(2023); CTSDH Research Assistant(2022-Present); Web Content Developer(2022-Present); Product Designer(2020-2022); Assistant Teacher(2018-2020)

Professional website: http://ctsdh.org/RiaDe/ 


Email id: chouser@luc.edu 

Research interests: digital archives, material culture, data visualizations 

Current Projects: May Weber Ethnographic Collection Mexican Masks digital archive

Course of study: 

Fall 2022: Intro to Digital Humanities Research, Textual Studies, Intro to Computing.  

Spring 2023: Intro to Digital Humanities Design, Management of History Museums, Social Legal and Ethical Issues Involving Computing

Fall 2023: DIGH 500 DH Practicum; DIGH 403 Web Application Development

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-houser-845074203

Website: carolinehouser.com 

Professional Activity: BS in Anthropology and BA in Global and International Studies at Loyola University Chicago 


Email id: mdiazdevaldesnavarr@luc.edu 
Research Interest: Podcast as a tool or disseminating knowledge to broader audiences, Public Humanities, Decolonial Archive, and Multilingual DH   
Current Projects: RA for “Printed Matters: Early Representations of the Caribbean in British Periodicals," amd The Amy Lowell Letters Project (ALLP)
Individual Course Of Study:
Fall 2022: Intro to Digital Humanities Research, Textual Studies, Intro to Computing.
Spring 2023: Intro to Digital Humanities Design, Social Legal and Ethical Issues Involving Computing, HIST 401 Special Topics/Seminar
Fall 2023: DIGH 500 DH Practicum; DIGH 403 Web Application Development
Professional Activity:
2021-present Co-founder and co-host (along with Mauricio Oportus Preller) of “Te leíste el texto?”, a podcast in Spanish meant as a general introduction to the canon of political philosophy for non-specialized audiences.
2016 – 2018 Outreach Assistant of the Philosophy Institute at Diego Portales University.
Collaborator in the organization of congresses, workshops, public forums, and other events lead by the Department.
2017-2020 M.A. candidate in Contemporary Philosophy, Universidad Diego Portales, specializing in early 20th century Germany.
2014 – 2017 Lead Teacher Assistant at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
2013 – 2014 Student Council member in charge of Academic Outreach.
Organizer of civic education panels and workshop for high school students of underrepresented and marginalized groups and editor of undergraduate journals.
2011-2015 B.A. in Political Science with a senior paper on theories of justice an radical democracy at Universidad Católica de Chile.
Languages: (*)
Spanish, English
German: Basic-Intermediate Proficiency (A2-B1)
French: Basic proficiency (A1)
* Levels according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
Website: http://www.consueloddv.com   


Email id: jlateef@luc.edu

Research Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, Digital Mapping, Database Management, Digital Archiving

Twitter: @jeremiahlateefPersonal 

Website: https://jeremiahlat.com/ 

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremiah-lateef-440b9a16b/ 

Current Project: Research Assistant at CTSDH, Amy Lowell Letters Project.

Individual Course of Study:

Fall 2022

COMP 170: Intro to Object-Oriented Programming, DIGH 500: Practicum in Digital Humanities, DIGH 400: Introduction to Digital Humanities

Professional Activity: Coding Instructor, Front End Developer (React, Tailwind CSS, JavaScript), BA in English and Literary Studies.

Freely reach out to me if you have any questions or need any help pertaining to Digital Humanities or coding! 

 


Research Interests: historical linguistics, phonology, orthography, geolinguistics, GIS, dialectology/dialectometry, language standardization, auxiliary languages, data visualization, dramaturgy, political science
Personal Website: timbertucci.com 
Individual Course of Study:
Fall 2022: DIGH 400: Introduction to Digital Humanities Research; DIGH 401/COMP 125: Visual Information Processing
Professional Activity: BS/BA Secondary Education, Italian, Theatre at Loyola University Chicago; ESL instructor (2015–present)

Email: slnu2@luc.edu 
Research Interests: Popular Culture, Fan Culture, Fantasy and Science fiction, Human-Computer Interaction, Textual studies
Twitter and personal Website:  https://shwethavaidyanathan.com/
Current Project: 
Graduate Reference Assistant at LUC Library
Digital Systems Assistant at LUC Library
Individual Course of Study: 
Fall 2022: 
COMP 170: Intro to Object-Oriented Programming, DIGH 500: Practicum in Digital Humanities, DIGH 400: Introduction to Digital Humanities
Professional Activity: BA and MA in English Literature
Learning Delivery and Communications Associate (2023), Communications Associate (2022-23), Visiting Faculty for English (2022), Assistant Admissions Counselor (2021-22), Social Media Editor (2016-17))