Advising History
Fall 2019 - Spring 2020
I met with Professor Jean-François Blanchette at the beginning of the Fall term to discuss classes that I should look into taking later on in the year. Based on my interest in the Digital Humanities, he recommended that I talk to Professor Johanna Drucker and Professor Miriam Posner, both of whom are prominent figures in the DH world. He also recommended, based on my interest in costuming and theatre, that I take the Performing Arts Librarianship course offered in the Spring. I met with Professor Drucker in Winter to talk about her work developing literary games and electronic fiction, and she recommended I look into the Electronic Literature Organization.
By Spring, we were all in quarantine, so any future plans I had were up in the air. I checked in with Professor Blanchette via email, and started working virtually with Diana Ascher and the IS Lab staff to develop online tutorials. Due to the strange nature of the quarter, I was able to tailor my class projects to fit my interests: Professor Jillian Wallis helped me craft a letter to an author whose book I wanted to use as a dataset (and it worked!), and Professor Lindsay Hansen Brown was very enthusiastic about my idea to create a monologue database (which ultimately became my issue paper). During this time, I also took Professor Drucker’s Book Arts Lab (originally the Letterpress Lab), which reminded me that art and academia are not mutually exclusive.
Fall 2020 - Spring 2021
Over the summer, I took online courses to gain practical skills in web development and computer programming. In the Fall, I switched advisors to Professor Drucker, and met with her to discuss my coursework. Since finding an internship during a pandemic was proving to be tough, she recommended I focus on taking as many courses that interested me as I could. During this quarter, I took my first DH class with Professor Posner, which convinced me that I was in the right field. In Winter, I continued to check in with Professor Drucker and Professor Posner about my coursework and projects. In Spring, Professor Drucker acted as my independent study supervisor so that I could design my own research project based around electronic literature.