I have a background in film, literary studies, history of the book studies, and library and information science. Before working in libraries, I was a filmmaking industry professional, initially working in post-production and then in the art department, where I spent most of my time. My creative background heavily influences my approach to DS methodologies and practices, management style, and vision for DS and the digital world more broadly.
Selections from CV
Positions Held
- Head of Digital Scholarship & Data Services, 2022-present; Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities co-director, 2024-present, Boston College
- Digital Scholarship Librarian, 2020-2022, Boston College
- Digital Scholarship Librarian, 2014-2020, Loyola Marymount University
Digital Projects
Teaching
Full Courses
- Engl 5998: DH & The Anthropocene, LMU, 2019 (co-designed, co-taught)
- Econ 3740: Economic Development of Minority Communities, LMU, spring 2018
- Engl 5998: Digital Watts Project, LMU, 2016 (co-designed, co-taught) (related project)
- Engl/Art 398: Visualizing Literature, LMU, fall 2014 (co-designed, co-taught
Embedded in Courses
- Engl 6600: Critical Methodology, LMU, fall 2015, 2017, 2018, and fall 2019
- Engl 2297: African American Literature, LMU, spring 2018
- Hist 5200: The Artist and the Machine, LMU, spring 2016
- Engl 398/Jwst 434: Literature of the Holocaust, LMU, spring 2015
Classroom Presentations
- Digital Humanities & Literary Scholarship talk slides
- Introduction to Libraries and Archives talk slides
- Book as Object and Literary Studies talk slides
- Digital Exhibits workshop slides
Classroom projects (I led students through)
- Archives, Race, and Justice (2017)
- Reanimating Frankenstein (2018)
- The Watts Collection (2016)
Conference Presentations
- “DLFTeach Toolkit Volume 3: Literacies and Competencies,” Co-presented with Mackenzie Brooks, Digital Library Federation Forum, Baltimore, Maryland, 2022
- “Antisemitism on Twitter: Teaching Students How to Analyze Online Hate Through A Simple Information Literacy Assignment,” Digital Library Federation Forum, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2018 (see slides)
- “Archives, Race, and Justice,” Co-presented with Julia Lee, Digital Library Federation Forum, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2018 (see project)
- “Digital Humanities as Community Engagement in the Digital Watts Project.” Digital Library Federation Liberal Arts Colleges Pre-Conference, Milwaukee, November 2016 (see slides, project, and related blog post)
Publications
- #DLFteach Volume 3: Lesson Plans for Literacy and Competency Driven Digital Scholarship Instruction (2022), co-editor
- #DLFteach Toolkit Volume 2: Lesson Plans on Immersive Pedagogy (2021), co-editor
- Exploring Literacies Through Digital Humanities: A dh+lib Special Issue (2020), co-editor
- “The Importance of Being Discovered: The Werner Von Boltenstern Shanghai Photograph and Negative Collection” (2018), author
- “Digital Humanities as Community Engagement: The Digital Watts Project.” Digital Humanities, Libraries, and Partnerships: A Critical Examination of Labor, Networks, and Community. (2018) (See the introduction, in which our chapter is featured, and a preprint version, co-author
* “It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane.” –Moby-Dick, EXTRACTS. (Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian).