Open Position at UCLA for a Digital Humanities Program Coordinator and Research Technology Consultant

UCLA College - Division of Humanities - Digital Humanities

ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATOR (Salary Range $54,192 - $78,660; Level and salary range commensurate with qualifications)

The University of California, Los Angeles, invites applications for the position of Academic Administrator as the Digital Humanities Program Coordinator and Research Technology Consultant. Reporting to the Chair of the Digital Humanities Program, the Program Coordinator is responsible for developing courses and teaching in the Digital Humanities program, advising undergraduate and graduate students, and overseeing a variety of faculty research and student support initiatives. The Coordinator will work closely with the Digital Humanities Chair and affiliated faculty to schedule and plan course offerings, place students in mentorships and/or apprenticeships, perform project management duties for those students and their related, faculty-sponsored research projects, recruit and advise students, and collaborate with Centers and Institutes at UCLA, including, but not limited to, the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH), the Digital Library Program, the Institute for Digital Research and Education, the Experiential Technologies Center, and the Office of Instructional Development. The Coordinator will contribute research technology expertise to CDH initiatives, and will serve as a key CDH liaison with the Digital Humanities program.

The successful candidate must have a demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and facilitate broad-based humanities research and teaching projects, which are cooperative ventures between humanists, technologists, scientists, and designers. Administrative experience working with humanities faculty, technology staff, and funding agencies is highly desirable. The successful candidate must have a PhD, preferably in a Humanities discipline. For more information, please visit: http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/

Initial screening of applications will be on August 22, 2011, although we will accept applications on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

For the full job description and to apply, please go to: http://www.cdh.ucla.edu/resources/job-openings.html

UCLA is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply.

CfP: DH Reading Group at UCLA

The UCLA Digital Humanities Reading Group meets twice a quarter at UCLA to discuss the work of a student, faculty, or staff member at UCLA (or any other school in the area). If you think you might be interested in presenting your work in the 2011-2012 academic year, please email me at David Shepard with a brief description of a project you might like to present and, roughly, when you would want to present it ("January" or "early winter" is close enough). Projects should be digital humanities related (broadly defined), and can include research, pedagogy, or anything in between. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

Matthew Kirschenbaum to speak at UCLA

IS Colloquium Series
Matt Kirshenbaum
April 21, 2011 3-5pm
GSEIS 111
Reception in 2nd Floor Salon

Title: Born-Digital Humanities: Toward A Research Agenda

Abstract: Much has been made lately of digital humanities, which has rapidly become institutionalized and professionalized as a research paradigm at the intersection of cultural heritage, digital tools and technologies, big data, and humanistic scholarship. Yet digital humanities has had surprisingly little contact with researchers in digital preservation and personal digital archiving, an omission all the more surprising given that our born-digital archives of today will be the cultural heritage of tomorrow. In this talk I will draw from my experiences on three recent projects, each of which served to educate me in various aspects of digital preservation practice: Approaches to Managing and Collecting Born-Digital Literary Materials for Scholarly Use, which included archivists at the Ransom Center and Emory University; Preserving Virtual Worlds, a multi-institutional collaboration adopting a case-study approach; and Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections, which resulted in a published report for CLIR. Each of those projects suggests ways in which a research agenda at the intersection of digital humanities, digital preservation, and personal digital archives might be cultivated, and I will use this talk to elaborate them. The issues will be framed in relation to wider topics, including digital materiality, retro computing, digital legacies, and computer history.

Bio: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland, Associate Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH, an applied thinktank for the digital humanities), and Director of Digital Cultures and Creativity, a living/learning program in the Honors College. He is also an affiliated faculty member with the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at Maryland, a Vice President of the Electronic Literature Organization. His first book, Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination, was published by the MIT Press in 2008 and won the 2009 Richard J. Finneran Award from the Society for Textual Scholarship (STS), the 2009 George A. and Jean S. DeLong Prize from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), and the 16th annual Prize for a First Book from the Modern Language Association (MLA). In 2010 he co-authored (with Richard Ovenden and Gabriela Redwine) Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections, a report published by the Council on Library and Information Resources. Kirschenbaum speaks and writes often on topics in the digital humanities and new media; his work has received coverage in the Atlantic, New York Times, National Public Radio, Wired, Boing Boing, Slashdot, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. He is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow. See http://www.mkirschenbaum.net for more information.

UCLA Digital Humanities Reading Group - Winter/Spring Line-up

I'm pleased to announce that we have a very full schedule for upcoming Digital Humanities Reading Group meetings. The schedule is below; all meetings will take place in Humanities Building 250.


Jan 18 (please note the date change), 1-3pm: Willeke Wendrich and Jacco Dieleman (UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures) -- The UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology


Feb 8, 1-3pm: Chris Johanson (UCLA Department of Classics) and Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant -- A Walk with the Dead


April 12, 1-3pm: Johanna Drucker (UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies) -- Designing the Museum of Writing


May 10, 1-3pm: Two projects funded by Google Digital Humanities Awards
This session will involve presentations by Timothy R. Tangherlini (UCLA Scandinavian Section) and Peter Leonard (University of Washington Department of Scandinavian Studies) on their project "Northern Insights: Tools & Techniques for Automated Literary Analysis, Based on the Scandinavian Corpus in Google Books." and Todd Presner (UCLA Department of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature), Chris Johanson (UCLA Department of Classics), and David Shepard (UCLA Department of English), on HyperCities Geoscribe, their tool for geo-temporal reading.

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David Shepard
Project Manager, Hypercities (http://hypercities.com/)
PhD Candidate, Department of English
UCLA

CFP: Mapping Place: GIS and the Spatial Humanities

Call for lightning talks and poster presentations: Mapping Place: GIS and the Spatial Humanities Friday-Saturday, February 25-26, 2011
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UC Santa Barbara

Mapping Place will examine the intersection between Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the spatial turn in the humanities. Participants have been asked to describe their mapping projects in relation to humanities methodologies, research objects and/or concerns. In particular, the conference will examine the contributions that GIS make to our evolving ideas of place. We welcome proposals for 3-5 minute lightning talks and poster presentations. Please send a 500 word abstract and brief CV to mappingplaceconference@gmail.com by January 14, 2011.

For further information about mapping place, visit www.ihc.ucsb.edu/mappingplace.

CFP: International Association for Language Learning Technology conference at UCI, June 2011

The International Association for Language Learning Technology announces its Call for Papers for the upcoming meeting (June 2011) at UCI.

For more information: http://www.iallt.org/

UCLA job opening - Librarian for Digital Research and Scholarship

The UCLA Library has initiated recruitment for the position of Librarian for Digital Research and Scholarship in the Collections, Research & Instructional Services Department, and is actively seeking nominations and applications. The first consideration date for this position is December 1, 2010. More info is available here.