Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities
Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities
The 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. Learn More
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Floppy Disk and Counterfactuals: the Korean War Orphan in Octavia E. Butler's Unfinished Novels
November 13 | 3:30PM - 4:30PM | Coffey Hall, McCormick Lounge | Dr. Jeff Noh Jeff Noh will draw on original archival research conducted on Octavia E. Butler’s papers at the Huntington Library to reconstruct her work on the computer. Butler’s experiments with the computer re-imagines the possibilities of her work through a hitherto overlooked figure of textual and historical counterfactuality: the Korean War orphan.
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BREN ORTEGA MURPHY'S LEGACY: Igniting Feminist Thought in Jesuit Education
November 1st | 3:00pm-5:00pm | Palm Court, 4th Floor Mundelein, LSC Featured Panelist: Karla Scott (St. Louis University) & Laura Ellingson (Santa Clara University) Join us for a celebration of Professor Bren Ortega Murphy's vital contributions to rhetoric, gender studies, and media representation. Engage with colleagues and students in discussions about the boundaries of scholarship and Brens film, "A Question of Habit." Refreshments Provided
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Spring Class: DIGH 402: DIGITAL HUMANITIES DESIGN: DESIGN FEMINISMS
SPRING 2025 | DR. Hopwood | Tues 4:15 PM Open to all graduate students interested in the politics of design and how it shows up in our humanities research. This class will focus on research methods from interdisciplinary fields of design and digital humanities to examine how code, aesthetics, and interface make and remediate our histories, our systems, our archives, and our understanding of the human in the digital age.
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