We’re thrilled to announce that funding for Demystifying Digital Humanities has been renewed for 2013-14! This means that we’ll be able to refine our workshop content according to feedback from our participants and faculty sponsors, and run the workshops again in order to keep building the UW’s digital humanities/multimodal scholarship cohort. We’re very pleased to announce that Brian Gutierrez, also of UW English, will be joining us in running this year’s series.

Demystifying DH will be expanding in two directions during 2013-14:

1) Over this summer, we will be expanding this website substantially, in order to make it a more complete archive of the DMDH curriculum, and to serve as a resource for UW students, staff, and faculty who are interested in learning more about digital and multimodal scholarship. Our plans include a listing of campus-wide DH-related courses, and resource posts on specific topics, i.e. understanding intellectual property issues in relation to DH projects.

2) During the school year we’ll be holding a number of Development and Feedback Sessions in the Simpson Center’s new multimodal scholarship project lab. These sessions are intended to be part show-and-tell, part open peer review, part tech support office hours, where people can come to demonstrate what they’re working on; and/or seek help and encouragement on dealing with a particular obstacle. We hope that participants from the first year of the workshops will be able to use these sessions to collaborate and gain support from the digital humanities cohort that is developing at UW; but the sessions are open to everyone. The more people who are involved, the more interesting and useful the sessions will be. Specific schedule information will be available closer to the start of the school year.

If you’d like to know more, then you can check out our grant application: http://dmdh.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DMDH-2013-14-Renewal-Grant-Public.pdf

In the meantime, watch this space! We’ll have more news shortly.