UTSA hosts digital humanities expert presentation April 23
(April 21, 2015) -- The UTSA Digital Humanities Initiative and Special Collections Library will host Lisa Spiro, executive director of digital scholarship services at Rice University’s Fondren Library, for a presentation “Shaping (Digital) Scholars: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Humanities,” at 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 23 in the John Peace Library (JPL 4.04.22) on the UTSA Main Campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.
The digital humanities are opening up innovative approaches to humanities teaching and research, such as building digital collections, visualizing patterns in cultural information, analyzing texts and mapping geographic phenomena. Students can play important roles in many projects in the process, including developing digital literacies and expertise in conducting collaborative research. Participants will learn how and why they should incorporate a digital exercise or assignment into a course.
Spiro was the founding editor of the Digital Research Tools (DiRT) wiki. She has published or presented on digital (humanities) pedagogy, defining and cultivating expertise in digital scholarship, collaboration in the digital humanities, digital humanities values, archival management systems, the prospect for an all-digital academic library, and the impact of digital resources on research into American literature and culture.
She also chairs the communications committee for the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organization and serves as a member of the Executive Council of the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Spiro is also a member of the steering committee for the Texas Digital Humanities Consortium.
Previously, Spiro served as the director of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education Laboratories and as a program manager for Anvil Academic press.
She received her doctoral degree in English from the University of Virginia and her bachelor’s degrees in history and English from Rice University.
The lecture is sponsored by the College of Liberal and Fine Arts and Humanities Texas.
For more information, contact William Duffy at William.duffy@utsa.edu or visit the UTSA Department of Philosophy and Classics.
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