Grants and Research Awards
2020 NEH-funded Institute on Research with Vector Space Models, selected participant
2019 Women’s Early Career Accelerator Selected Participant, NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC) DC
2016 ACLS Digital Extension Grant for Photogrammar. Project team member
2014 & 2015 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Borghesi Workshop Grant for co-founding the Digital Humanities Research Network, UW-Madison Center for the Humanities
2013 New Arts Venture Challenge First Place Award for digital humanities research, UW-Madison Arts Enterprise
2008-2009 Daniel Bonbright Scholar, presented to top juniors in the humanities and fine arts, Northwestern University
2008 Robert Mayo Memorial Prize for best paper, Northwestern University
Fellowships
2015 Chancellor’s Fellowship, UW-Madison Graduate School
2015 Mellon-Wisconsin Summer Fellowship
2013 Chawton House Library Visiting Fellowship and University of Southampton Fellow
2013 Sally Mead Hands Dissertation Fellowship, UW-Madison English Department
Conference and Institute Travel Awards
2018 Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching (HILT) Sponsored Student Scholarship. Also in 2014, 2015, 2016
2015 Conference Presentation Grant, UW-Madison Graduate School
2014 Herlihy-Jones Travel Award, UW-Madison English Department
2012 & 2013 Vilas Conference Presentation Grant, the Graduate School, UW-Madison
2013 North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Travel Grant
2013 The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) Post-Graduate Bursary
2013 Digital Humanities Winter Institute (DHWI) Sponsored Student Scholarship
2012 Victorians Institute Travel Award
2012 Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) Tuition Scholarship, University of Victoria
PUBLICATIONS (return to top)
Articles and Chapters
“Pedagogy First: A Lab-Led Model for Preparing Graduate Students to Teach DH.” What We Teach When We Teach DH: Digital Humanities in the Classroom. Debates in Digital Humanities Series. Eds. Brian Croxall and Diane K. Jakacki. Under contract.
“Foregrounding Users in Digital Humanities Spaces.” Co-authored with Peter Leonard. Designing Libraries. Eds. Leonora Crema, Tom Hickerson, and Joan Lippincott. Association of College Research Libraries, 2022. 309-321.
"Connecting Fragmented Support on Campus: Growing Research Data Services Programs Through Collaboration". Collaborative Librarianship. Co-authored with Patricia B. Condon and Thea P. Atwood. 13.2 (2022)
“Digital Humanities on Reserve: From Reading Room to Laboratory at Yale University Library.” Co-authored with Peter Leonard. Digital Humanities Quarterly. 14.3 (2020)
“Victorian Eyes: Literary, Statistical, and Artistic Perspectives on Victorian Novels – and Dickens’s Unfinished Murder Mystery.” Co-authored with Carrie Roy (Artist) and Fred Boehm (Statistics). Significance. American Statistical Association and Royal Statistical Society. 11.2 (Apr. 2014): 40-43
“Reading Numbers by Numbers: Digital Studies and the Victorian Serial Novel.” Co-authored with Susan David Bernstein. Victorian Review. Special Issue: “Digital Victorians.” 38.2 (Fall 2012): 43-68
Reviews and Bibliographies
“RSVP Bibliography: 2011-2013.” Contributor. Victorian Periodicals Review. 47.3 (Fall 2014): 476-519
“Review of Nineteenth-Century Fiction Database.” SHARP News. Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing 21.4 (Autumn 2012): 13-14
TALKS & CONFERENCES (return to top)
Invited Talks and Interviews
2020 “From PhD to DHLab.” Humanities Speaker Series. Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University
2019 Invited session lead. “People and Machines: Co-Creating with Heritage Collections.” Organized by the National Archives in London in collaboration with Aarhus Stadsarkiv
2019 “How we Prepare Future Teachers of Digital Humanities.” Keynote. DHN 2019. University of Copenhagen
2018 “Media Matters: From Manuscripts to Print in George Eliot’s Romola.” Yale 18th & 19th Century Colloquium
2018 “Introduction to Design: User-Centered Digital Humanities.” Keynote. Third Utah Symposium on the Digital Humanities. Utah State University
2018 “Digital Humanities and the HistoryMakers Archive.” Co-presented with Lauren Tilton. HistoryMakers Board of Advisors meeting. New York
2017 “Digital Humanities Support for Research and Teaching.” IvyPlus Directors of Educational Technology meeting. Yale University
2017 Alumni Speaker Series on Teaching. UW-Madison English Department
2017 "Topic Modeling the HistoryMakers Archive." HistoryMakers Board of Advisors meeting. New York
2016 Job Market Panel. Professionalization Workshop, North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA)
2016 “Beyond TEI: Literary Tools for Literary Scholars.” Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library and the Yale Working Group in Digital Manuscript Studies
2014 “Plugged-In Classrooms: Incorporating Media into your Teaching.” English 100 Training Session. UW-Madison
2014 “Developing a Sense of Community within Graduate Programs.” Graduate School Panel for Program Coordinators Annual Meeting. UW-Madison
2013 “Victorian Eyes: Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Arts.” Interviewed with fellow collaborators Carrie Roy and Fred Boehm. Perpetual Notion Machine: Stories and News about Science, Technology and Related Public Policy. WORT 89.9 FM radio, Madison
2013 Collaborations in the Digital Humanities Roundtable. The British Modernities Group. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2012 “What Computational Analysis Can Tell Us About Literature: Using JMP to Study Literary Trends.” Lecture Series. Humanities Research Bridge. UW-Madison
2012 “Mapping British Literature, 1800-1900.” Lecture series. UW-Madison Computer Graphics Lab
2012 “Visualizations and Humanities Research.” Closing Forum for UW-Madison Graduate Student Conference. Graduate Student Association
2011 “Wind Tunnel Digital Tools.” Corpora Space Tool Mixer Workshop. Project Bamboo. University of Maryland,
2010 Arts and Humanities Information Panel. New Graduate Student Orientation. UW-Madison
Conferences
2020 “Visualizing Medical Heritage Collections at Scale.” Co-presented with Peter Leonard. 10th Anniversary Conference. Medical Heritage Library
2019 “Experiments with Named Entity Recognition: Identifying People, Places, and Things in the Victorian Novel.” Victorian Data Network. University of Virginia
2019 “Seeing Genre with Networks.” North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA). Columbus, Ohio
2019 “Neural Style Transfer: Kandinsky to Kandisnky.” Machine Vision for Cultural Heritage & Natural Science Collections. Yale University
2017 "Version Control: Information Management in The Woman in White." North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA). Florence, Italy
2016 “Much Ado about DH: Teaching Shakespeare at Scale.” Elsinore Conference. Teesside University
2015 “Seeing Through the Numbers: the Human in Digital Humanities.” North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA). Brigham Young University, Hawaii
2014 “Predicting Dickens: Generative Statistics and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.” Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada (VSAWC). Banff, Canada
2014 “‘A Distant Copyist’: Translation and Charlotte Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). New York University
2013 “‘Fruitful Antagonisms’: Dickens’s Part-Issue Novels and Digital Studies.” Co-presented with Susan Bernstein. North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA). University of South California, Dornsife
2013 “Imported Plots: Translation and the British Romantics.” British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS). University of Southampton
2013 “Periodical Links: Reading the Circulation of Texts In and Around Romola.” The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP). University of Salford
2013 “Scaling Studies of Locality.” North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA). Ca’ Foscari University
2013 “Digital Tools and World Views: What Literary Maps Can Tell Us About Nineteenth-Century Novels.” The British Modernities Group. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2012 “Counting Words and Tracking Narrators in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House.” Victorians Institute. Virginia Commonwealth University
2012 “Narrativizing the World: Visualizing the Global Scope of Nineteenth-Century Genres.” North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA). UW-Madison
2012 “Transatlantic Illustrations: (Re)Packaging Uncle Tom’s Cabin for Children.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS). University of Kentucky
2012 “Abbreviated Narratives: Nineteenth-Century Reprintings and The Making Of A National Identity.” International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN). Narrative Society
2011 “Imagined Spaces: Narrative Possibilities and the Role of the Viewer in Victorian Visual Culture.” North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA). Vanderbilt University
2011 “Experiential Reading: The Function of Description in Narrative.” International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN). Washington University in St. Louis
2011 “Reading Curiosity: Narrative Drive in Gothic Fiction.” British Women Writers Conference (BWWC). The Ohio State University
2010 “Prescribing Gender: Doctors and Bodies in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Biopolitics Conference. UW-Madison
2010 “Marking Authority: The Function of Medieval Book Curses in Monastic and Legal Manuscripts.” UW-Madison Graduate Student Conference
WORKSHOPS (return to top)
Workshop Participation
2019 NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute Certificate: Fundamentals of Deep Learning for Computer Vision
2018 THATCamp AHA-MLA. University of Illinois at Chicago
2018 "Text Analysis." Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching (HILT). Instructors Scott Enderle and Katie Rawson. University of Pennsylvania
2018 Software Carpentry Instructor Training. University of Massachusetts-Amherst
2017 “Automating tasks with the Unix shell, Building programs with Python, and Version control with Git.” Software Carpentry. Tufts University
2016 “Digital Native American and Indigenous Studies.” National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Workshop. Yale University
2016 “Database Design for Visualization and Analysis.” Instructor Nicole Coleman, Stanford University. Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching (HILT). Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
2015 “Crowdsourcing Cultural Heritage.” Instructors Mia Ridge, Open University, and Ben Brumfield, Independent Developer. Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching (HILT). Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
2014 “Programming for Everybody with Python.” Instructor Charles Severance, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. MOOC course
2014 “Network Analysis and Visualization.” Instructor Elijah Meeks, Stanford University. Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching (HILT). University of Maryland
2013 “Large-Scale Text Analysis with R.” Instructor Matthew Jockers, University of Nebraska. Digital Humanities Winter Institute (DHWI). University of Maryland
2012 “Out-of-the-Box Text Analysis for the Digital Humanities.” Instructor David Hoover. Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI). University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada