Digital Humanities at Loyola University Chicago
- Visit the Center for Textual Studies and Digital HumanitiesThe Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities (CTSDH) is a collaborative multidisciplinary research center in the College of Arts and Sciences. It supports research across the humanities, as well as in the arts, communication, computer science, social sciences, and University Libraries. In addition to supporting research projects, the CTSDH sponsors conferences, lectures, and workshops, and offers undergraduate and graduate students the chance to work with faculty on advanced research, and to take courses in and pursue research of their own in the interdisciplinary areas of textual studies and digital humanities.
CTSDH Faculty
- Elizabeth Hopwood
Assistant Director and Graduate Program Director CTSDH; Instructor in Digital Humanities and English
Email: ehopwood@luc.edu - Kyle Roberts
Director CTSDH; Associate Professor of Public History and New Media, History Department
Email: kroberts2@luc.edu
CTSDH Affiliated Faculty
- George K. Thiruvathukal Founding Co-Director, CTSDH (2009-2015), Professor of Computer Science, and CTSDH Fellow Email: gkt@cs.luc.edu
- Nicholas Hayward Advanced Lecturer & Senior Research Fellow, Computer Sciences Email: nhayward@luc.edu
- Paul Eggert Martin J. Svaglic Chair of Textual Studies, Professor of English Email: peggert@luc.edu
Digital Projects at Loyola University Chicago
- Charles Harpur Critical Archive The Charles Harpur Critical Archive (CHCA) is a digital archive and a scholarly edition of the poetic works of Charles Harpur (1813-68), the most important poet of colonial New South Wales, whose works up to this point have not been easily accessible to the general public. A Romantic celebrator of Australian landscape, a political satirist, a love poet and early environmentalist, Harpur and his works remain relevant today.
- Codename Revolution Co-authored by the two founding co-directors of the CTSDH, Codename Revolution: The Nintendo Wii Platform (MIT Press, 2012) explores the reciprocal relationship of gaming hardware to the artists working on these platforms. Steven Jones and George Thiruvathukal approached this book as an experiment in applying a dual media studies and computer science approach to the study of a computing platform with a wide cultural influence.
- Decolonizing the Museum Catalogue: May Weber Collection In 2012, Loyola University Chicago received a collection of approximately 2500 cultural art objects to be curated by the Department of Anthropology from the Chicago-based collector and museum curator/director, May Weber. The May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection serves as an educational and research resource for students, faculty, and the public. The collection contains the work of hundreds of indigenous artists from communities in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. It is particularly strong in Mexican festival masks and Asian textiles, particularly from India and Southeast Asia.
- Digitizing the Michalak Collection This collaborative project of the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities and the Loyola University Libraries aims to preserve, digitize, and make accessible via multiple platforms a rich collection of late eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century political cartoons and pamphlets generously donated to Loyola University Archives and Special Collections by Thomas J. and Jo-Ann Michalak.
- Gerard Manley Hopkins Site This new project’s endeavor is to create an official website for renowned English Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. It will bring together critical readerships of his works from around the world in a website entirely dedicated to the poet, his work, and the people who engage with it.
- HRIT-CaTT HRIT-CaTT stands for Humanities Research Infrastructure and Tools (HRIT) and Collaborative Tagging Tool (CaTT). These intertwined projects aim to develop an online open-source, collaborative, robust environment in which to aggregate, link or cross-reference, edit, and share vetted primary documentary texts--along with their scholarly enhancements, analyses, and commentaries, in the form of markup, annotation, keyword tagging, linking and other functions.
- Jesuit Libraries Project The Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project is a collaborative research and teaching project dedicated to uncovering the history of acquisition and use of Loyola’s original library books. Students, faculty, and staff work together to make available information about these foundational collections through a virtual library system, a digital archive of provenance marks, and a website devoted to scholarship on these books by undergraduate and graduate interns.
- Man into Woman In 1930 Danish artist Einar Wegener underwent a series of surgeries to become Lili Elvenes (more commonly known as Lili Elbe). Her life story, Fra Mand til Kvinde (Man into Woman), published in Copenhagen in 1931, is the first full-length narrative of a subject who undergoes a surgical change in sex. Produced collaboratively by multiple agents, Fra Mand til Kvinde was re-edited and published in German in 1932 (Ein Mensch wechselt sein Geschlecht), with English-language translations in Britain and the U.S. in 1933 (Man into Woman: An Authentic Record of a Change of Sex). Our digital archive will provide searchable versions of all four editions (Danish, German, British and American) as well as the German typescript and the first English language translation of the Danish edition. Comparing the German typescript and the four versions published in three languages between 1931 and 1933 discloses how a narrative of transgender was shaped by cultural values, linguistic choices, and editorial decisions.
- Modernist Networks Modernist Networks (ModNets) is a consortium of digital projects in the field of modernist literary and cultural studies. It has the dual goals of establishing a vetting community for digital modernist scholarship and a technological infrastructure to support development of scholarly projects and access to scholarship on modernist literature and culture.
- Woolf Online Woolf Online serves as a digital archive and resource for the study of Virginia Woolf's modernist classic, To the Lighthouse (1927). During the last thirty years or more, Woolf's fiction has generated a massive body of criticism, but surprisingly little of it has drawn upon the extraordinary wealth of surviving source material that Woolf left behind, and the detailed information it can yield as to how her work came to be written. Using the Mojulem software developed by CTSDH faculty, Woolf Online brings together a range of rare material on a digital platform.
- ZettelGeist ZettelGeist is a plaintext note-taking system, inspired by the ZettelKasten Method, which supports the familiar tried-and-true method of organizing research using a card index.
- Student Research At the CTSDH we are committed to nurturing student scholarship in the Digital Humanities and Textual Studies. Below you will find more information about projects undertaken by Loyola undergraduate and graduate students. Browse through and enjoy the diversity of creative work happening by the next generation of digital humanists!
- MA in Digital HumanitiesThe Digital Humanities MA program at Loyola University CTSDH offers training in the practice and critical study of the intersections between the humanities and computational sciences. Our interdisciplinary program offers rigorous hands-on training in digital research projects within a theoretical framework that explores the critical, social, and ethical contexts for thinking about Digital Humanities research and applications.
- MA in DH CurriculumLoyola's M.A. in Digital Humanities is a 30-hour program, for both full-time and part-time students (full time enrollment requires a minimum of 9 hours/semester), with two converging tracks, one track designed for students with a background in computer science and one track designed for students with a background in the humanities or other fields.
- CTSDH AlumniLoyola’s CTSDH has been a pioneer and innovator in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities education, establishing one of the nation’s first graduate-level programs in 2011.
Since its inception, the CTSDH’s graduate program has trained a number of professionals pursuing careers in such diverse fields as archives and libraries, software development , and corporate positions. Others have gone on to prestigious doctoral programs. The CTSDH’s graduate program trains students broadly The CTSDH’s curriculum is innovative for balancing theory and practice, teaching the best professional standards while preparing students for employment in multiple areas of digital humanities practice. The CTSDH promotes an inclusive environment for textual studies and digital humanities training.
Resources at the CTSDH
- Learning Opportunities We want our workshops to reflect the needs and desires of our university community, so we invite you to fill out the following form to indicate what topics might be of interest to you!
- Humanities Datebook The Humanities Datebook is a new service of the Loyola Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities. The Datebook is distributed by email on Monday mornings and provides a round-up of Humanities-related events around LUC for the coming weeks.