Author: Diane Jakacki
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Do You Teach DH? This Survey Is For You!
Brian Croxall and I are excited to announce the launch of a research study: “Who Teaches When We Teach Digital Humanities?” With this study, we hope to learn more about the training and preparation of those who teach digital humanities the for-credit and informal teaching that DH teachers do “I teach DH!” you say. “How can I…
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Posters at DH2019
I’ll be presenting two posters at DH2019: “Encoding the ‘Floating Gap’”: Linking Cultural Memory, Identity, and Complex Place” (with Katherine Faull, Bucknell University): In this poster the authors present a model for encoding what ethnographers term the “floating gap” when constructing an historical gazetteer of place names. This step is especially crucial as scholars make…
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Announcing Debates in DH Pedagogy!
Brian Croxall and I are thrilled to announce a call for abstracts for a forthcoming edited volume, Debates in Digital Humanities Pedagogy. The book will appear in the Debates in the Digital Humanities series from the University of Minnesota Press, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. Over the last decade, Digital Humanities…
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Illustration in Early Modern English Play-Texts
Jakacki, Diane Katherine, and University of Waterloo. Department of English Language and Literature. “‘Covetous to Parley with so Sweet a Frontis-Peece’ : Illustration in Early Modern English Play-Texts.” University of Waterloo, University of Waterloo, 2010. Abstract: This dissertation studies visual artifacts associated with early modern theatre and book culture, and through them examines acts of communication…
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Resolving the Polynymy of Place: or, how to create a gazetteer of colonized landscapes
This is the abstract for a paper I co-presented with Katie Faull at DH2018 in Mexico City on June 28, 2018. The slides and notes for the talk are deposited on Humanities Commons: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:19929/. Conference abstract: This paper will explore the problem of creating a gazetteer of colonized landscapes, specifically those of the mid-Atlantic in the…