Rennie Mapp
Digital Humanities Initiative
The Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI) supports the graduate students and faculty of Arts & Sciences in their research and teaching in the digital humanities. It includes the Graduate Certificate Program in Digital Humanities, as well as a series of events and workshops that promote digital and computational approaches to research in the humanities. The DHI is directed by Rennie Mapp.
Spring 2025 Info Session for DH Certificate Students
This streamlined event, hosted by director Rennie Mapp, will offer an overview of the events, deadlines, and opportunities for DH Certificate students in spring 2025.
Testing Voyant https://voyant-tools.org/tool
Voyant Tools is a web-based text reading and analysis environment. It is a scholarly project that is designed to facilitate reading and interpretive practices for digital humanities students and scholars as well as for the general public.
What you can do with Voyant:
DH Practicum:Data Design for Humanists
required DH course
Makerspace Workshop: Laser Cutting Workshop
Learn the basics of laser cutting and explore the different applications that it has in various industries! We’ll begin by creating a design in Adobe Illustrator and then using the Universal Laser Systems laser cutter to engrave, cut, or raster the material. You will gain hands-on experience with setting up the laser cutter, selecting the appropriate materials, and adjusting the settings for different tasks. By the end of the workshop, you will have a personalized creation!
An Informal DH Literary Analysis Methods Conversation with Peter Capuano
Peter Capuano (Director of Literary and Cultural Studies; Faculty Fellow, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities; Professor, Department of English) will join us for an informal conversation about the DH literary analysis methods used in his work. Capuano will be giving a formal talk in the UVA English Department that same day on “On the Mutuality of Method: Distant, Middle, and Close Reading in Dickens’s Idiomatic Imagination”.
Capuano’s 2023 book Dickens’s Idiomatic Imagination