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Education
2016 Ph.D. English, distributed minor (Computer Science & Art History), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 4.0
2010 M.A. English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 4.0
2009 B.A. English, minor in Classical Studies, Northwestern University, 3.977
summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, English Honors
Certification
2018 Software Carpentry Instructor
Work Experience
Technical Writer, Ab Initio, Aug. 2021
Document new software features and enhancements for analyzing real-time data streams
Lecturer, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University, Jan. 2021 – Aug. 2021
Developed inaugural course on humanities data mining for undergraduate and graduate students
Program Manager, Digital Humanities Lab, Yale University, Dec. 2018 – Aug. 2021
Communications & Outreach
Write user guides and copy for Lab software, tutorials on data analysis and visualization, policy statements that articulate the Lab’s guiding principles and support models, promotional materials for workshops and grant offerings, and annual reports for University leaders and external funders
Maintain official Digital Humanities Lab website, determining new content, adjusting CSS and HTML, and monitoring web traffic with Google Analytics to better understand how users are finding and interacting with the site
Represent the Digital Humanities Lab on over 6 cross-departmental committees focused on communications, outreach, and research data support services
Present regularly on Lab initiatives and the field of digital humanities more generally to internal and external audiences, including over 50 invited, off-campus talks and technical workshops to date
Programs, Projects, Initiatives
Supervise existing public-facing operations for the Digital Humanities Lab, while also collaborating with the Director to set the Lab’s long-term policies and priorities
Collaborate with the Lab’s developers and user experience designer to build open-source software for studying cultural heritage collections at scale, shaping product goals and crafting content for user on-boarding and navigation
Direct the Digital Humanities Teaching Fellowship and Internship programs, setting goals, mentoring awardees, and developing assessment criteria for evaluating the programs
Manage projects awarded Lab grants for rapid prototyping by conducting needs assessments, identifying deliverables, setting timelines, and acting as point person between the technical team and stakeholders
Instruction
Consult annually with more than 175 researchers on project scoping, user experience, and computational methods in text, image, network, and geospatial analysis
Teach 25-30 technical workshops each year to researchers from across campus, many of whom are new to using computational methods in their work
Supervision
Hire, train, and mentor 3-5 graduate student consultants and 1-3 undergraduate interns each year
Manage annual $2,000 collection development budget
Engagement and Outreach Manager, Digital Humanities Lab, Yale University, Sep. 2015 – Dec. 2018
Created style guidelines and developed the tone and copy for the Lab’s print and web communications, from posters and postcards to the website, social media, and email account
Piloted seed grant program with 100 projects over 3 years, serving as the project manager
Co-managed $3 million grant from start to completion with the Lab’s Director
Oversaw transition of main Lab website from a Library Drupal instance to a Jekyll website hosted on GitHub Pages
Developed and delivered Lab event programming for campus and public audiences
Hired and supervised over 150 undergraduate and graduate student research assistants
Instructor of Record & Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Aug. 2012 – Dec. 2014
Developed instructional materials for undergraduate courses on writing and literary analysis for the English Department and Program for Liberal Studies
Taught between 15 and 55 students each semester
Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
Research
2020 NEH-funded Institute on Research with Vector Space Models, selected participant
2019 Women’s Early Career Accelerator, Nvidia GPU Technology Conference, selected participant
2016 American Council of Learning Societies Digital Extension Grant for Photogrammar, a data visualization project for exploring photographs taken during the Great Depression and World War II, team award
2015 Chancellor’s Dissertation Fellowship, The Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2013 New Arts Venture Challenge First Place Award for Victorian Eyes, a project that represented literary and statistical findings as art pieces, University of Wisconsin-Madison Arts Enterprise, Co-Principal Investigator
Teaching and Mentorship
2015 Capstone Ph.D. Teaching Award, nominated by University of Wisconsin-Madison English Department
2014 Honored Instructor Award, nominated by my undergraduate students
2014 Best TA Award, Madison Undergraduate Society for English, nominated by undergraduate students
2012 Honored Instructor Award, nominated by my undergraduate students
2012 Graduate Student Peer Mentor Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison nominated by graduate students
Invited Keynotes
2019 “How We Prepare Future Teachers of Digital Humanities.” Digital Humanities Nordic Conference
2018 “Introduction to Design: User-Centered Digital Humanities.” Utah Symposium on the Digital Humanities
Publications
“Pedagogy First: A Lab-Led Model for Preparing Graduate Students to Teach DH.” Debates in Digital Humanities Pedagogy. Eds. Brian Croxall and Diane K. Jakacki. In Progress.
“Foregrounding Users in Digital Humanities Spaces.” Co-authored with Peter Leonard. Designing Libraries. Eds. Leonora Crema, Tom Hickerson, and Joan Lippincott. In progress.
“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
Invited Instructor
2020 “Intro to Data Visualization & Mapping Technologies.” Two workshops, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University
2019 “Getting Started with Data, Tools, and Platforms.” Co-instructor with Brandon Locke. Week-long course, Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching (HILT) institute
2019 “Text Mining to Mapping: Digital Humanities Methods.” Week-long, credit-bearing class, Yale-NUS Singapore
2018 “Text, Maps, & Networks: Introduction to Digital Humanities.” Week-long course, California Rare Book School
Selected Digital Projects
Yale Digital Humanities Lab Website
In 2017, I oversaw the transition of the Lab’s main website from a Yale Library Drupal instance to a Jekyll website hosted on GitHub Pages. Along with writing new copy—from advertisements for Lab workshops and services to guides on policies and project planning—I worked closely with a developer and user experience designer to shape the new site’s architecture and look so that it would meet the needs of diverse users.
Ensemble@Yale represents a collaboration between the Yale Digital Humanities Lab and Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library to create a searchable archive of Yale’s theatrical playbills through crowdsourced transcription, beginning with 90 years of programs from the Department of Drama.
As a collaborator on the project, I developed user workflows to encourage and facilitate participation on Zooniverse, a crowdsourcing platform that connected us with volunteers who helped transcribe over 1,000 programs. Additionally, I co-wrote content for the project website, user guide, and promotional materials.
PixPlot (in development)
PixPlot is open-source software under development within the Yale Digital Humanities Lab. It uses a convolutional neural network and Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) to cluster visually similar images near one another in a web browser.
As a collaborator on the project, I advocate for users, contributing design and functionality ideas that improve the user experience, as well as the legibility of the visualization. I also conduct testing on UMAP parameters and newly implemented features.
BlakeTint (launching publicly in 2021)
BlakeTint is open-source software the Yale Digital Humanities Lab created in collaboration with a dual PhD student in English and Art History. The visualization software provides users with macro- and micro-level views for studying William Blake’s use of color. Users can search by time or illuminated manuscript to see how the color palettes change.
As Project Manager for BlakeTint, I guided the development team, scope, timeline, and client expectations, writing the project charter that detailed the deliverables and acting as the liaison between the team and client.