Digital Humanities: the power of the computer

Digital humanities at UGA recently received a boost among faculty when it became eligible for the Study in a Second Discipline fellowship from the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost. The impetus was largely due, McGinn said, to a push by Roxanne Eberle, an associate professor of English in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. McGinn is currently working with Eberle each week on a project analyzing the letters of Amelia Opie, a British novelist and poet from the late 1700s.

The Willson Center, the UGA librairies and the Center for Teaching and Learning work together with our schools and colleges to bring more resources to faculty and to introduce best practices and methods. New tools present great possibility for using data in the classroom and in research, bringing the richness of all human knowledge to a wider array of questions, challenges and analyses than has ever been possible.

Image: Emily McGinn by Andrew Davis Tucker for UGA