Digital Humanities Working Group
The Digital Humanities Working Group offers a space for faculty and advanced graduate students to present works-in-progress for feedback before submitting their work to an external conference, journal or grant body.
Digital Humanities Working Group
The Digital Humanities Working Group offers a space for faculty and advanced graduate students to present works-in-progress for feedback before submitting their work to an external conference, journal or grant body.
Student Public Historian Internship
How to build a Qing Dynasty bed
The acquisition of a 19th-century Chinese bed allows Arts & Sciences students to study cultural history up close, from furniture assembly to 3D modeling.
The Humanities Digital Workshop moves online
COVID-19 forced the Humanities Digital Workshop annual summer program online for the first time. The experience led to unexpected opportunities for collaboration and problem-solving.
Westergaardian Species Counterpoint Online
Summer Workshop
Bringing digital methodologies into the humanities classroom
A new partnership between Washington University and the University of Missouri-St. Louis introduces graduate students to the digital tools that are changing the very nature of humanities scholarship — and expanding the kinds of questions scholars are asking.
Graduate Student Drop-in Clinic
The Humanities Digital Workshop will be debuting a weekly drop-in clinic for graduate students who use, or would like to use, digital or computational elements in their humanities-based research.
German Jane Eyre, 1848-1914
Principal Investigator: Lynne Tatlock, Washington University in St. Louis. One year after its first publication in London in 1847, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre first appeared in both English and in German translation in the German-language print domain, and over the next sixty years the novel circulated widely in the German-language print domain
Post-baccaulaureate Fellows
Graduate Certificate and Undergraduate Minor in Digital Humanities
West River Inscriptions project
We Don't Already Understand the Outlines of Literary History
Presentations associated with HDW work
The Shape of History: Reimagining Nineteenth-Century Data Visualization
Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis seeks undergrad RAs
West River project
Gender Violence Database
Creating a Federal Government
Dada Networks
HDW Summer Workshop final presentations
Early Print Genre Classification Project
New: Journal of Cultural Analytics
Cultural Analytics is a new open-access journal dedicated to the computational study of culture.
Data Science in the Humanities
Recent DH Visitors
We have been fortunate to enjoy visits from a growing number of great digital humanities practitioners in recent years.
The Dada Networks Project
Early Modern Print
The Meters of Roman Comedy
Timothy J. Moore's database, The Meters of Roman Comedy, is now available.
Curricular plans
How to Digitize Texts with Open-Source Command-Line Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Software
Workshops in Digital Humanities 2015-16
Edmund Spenser and Optical Character Recognition
All DH tasks, even the most automated ones, are supported by the efforts of human investigators, who often spend countless hours entering and cleaning up data.
Summer 2016 Graduate and Undergraduate Fellowships
F.B. Eyes Digital Archive
Principal Investigator: William J. Maxwell, Washington University in St. Louis. Student fellows scanned thousands of pages and helped create a digital archive to accompany William J. Maxwell’s book F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature.
F.B. Eyes Digital Archive now available
Bizet Catalogue complete
The Bizet Catalogue by Hugh Macdonald is now complete.