This event has been canceled.

UNCW Digital Humanities Initiative presents:

The Boundaries of Digital Humanities

This talk considers the boundary trouble of digital humanities, variously described as a field, a metadiscipline, a community of practice, an academic fad, or—according to Matthew Kirschenbaum—a “tactical term.” While DH can be useful in some contexts, in others it creates problems. I draw upon my own experiences implementing DH at research universities and within my own scholarly work and teaching to reframe DH in terms of field conversations, collaboration, and interdisciplinarity.

Monday, April 6, 2020, 3:30 p.m., Bear Hall 106

Light refreshments will be served.

Paul Fyfe is an associate professor of English at North Carolina State University. His research and teaching compass British Victorian literature, comparative media studies, and digital humanities. He is the author of By Accident or Design: Writing the Victorian Metropolis (Oxford UP 2015, paperback 2020) and is working on a new book called Digital Victorians: Technology, Literature, and Transmission which has been generously supported by the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Humanities Center. He participates in a number of DH projects including: Oceanic Exchanges which tracks information flow across international nineteenth-century newspaper networks; Illustrated Image Analytics which experiments with how computer vision can search and sort Victorian periodical illustrations; and Victoria's Lost Pavilion which virtually reconstructs Queen Victoria's garden pavilion as a three-dimensional model.

This event is sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences and Randall Library.

We love our Randall Library staff, so for this month's Human Library please give some love to our Coordinator of Liaison Librarian Services, Stephanie Crowe.

Name: Stephanie Crowe (@shcrowe on Twitter)

Title: Coordinator of Liaison Librarian Services.

What that means: Liaison librarians are the links between Randall Library and academic departments, helping students, staff, and faculty in those departments with research and other library-related needs. Stephanie coordinates our liaison program. She’s also the liaison librarian to five departments: Anthropology, History, International Studies, Public and International Affairs, and Sociology/Criminology.

Favorite book and current read: Stephanie is currently reading The Rosie Project, the story of a genetics professor setting out in a very orderly, evidence-based way to determine if he is capable of love. Her favorite book of all time, though, is Pride and Prejudice.

Favorite place in the library: Special Collections! It’s a completely different atmosphere than anywhere else in the building and has amazing collections (as does University Archives). Stephanie was a history major and feels archival research is far and away the most fun type of research. (Yes, really.)

If you could travel to any fictional world, which one would you go to and why?: She’d go to Arendelle (the world in which the movie Frozen is set) because her four-year-old daughter would never forgive her if she had the opportunity to see Elsa in person and didn’t take it. Also because, when it’s not under constant blizzard conditions, it seems pretty idyllic.

About Stephanie: Stephanie has just been in her current position as Coordinator of Liaison Librarian Services since July of 2019, but she’s been at Randall Library since 2013. She started as a general Research and Instructional Services Librarian, and then moved into being the Social Sciences Librarian. Her extracurricular skills are just as varied as her titles. Stephanie was also the table tennis champion at her middle school (a title she nabbed by winning a tournament in gym class), though she added that her ping pong skills probably peaked then, too. She can count to ten in six languages but isn’t fluent in any of them other than English. BONUS: Stephanie’s favorite non-fictional place is Tanglewood in the Berkshires, pictured here: https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/photos/870bfe12-e1d6-445b-9226-21d970ccfcd3

 

In order to continue to expand study space for students, we are clearing space occupied by bound journals on the 1st floor. These are older journals that we previously had bound together and placed on our shelves. Now, most of these journals are more easily accessible online through our vast collection of databases. This is made possible through a significant university investment over the last several years. A small collection of journals will be kept and moved to the 2nd floor later this spring. 

We are clearing close to 4,000 shelves of bound journals for this project. That means over 7,000 sq. feet of new study space for students!  

Our work begins now, and the new study area will be available by Fall 2020. 

Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 FlashLIT Contest!

The theme this year was “FEAST OR FAMINE” and our judges noted that students found a variety of unique ways to incorporate this theme into their “flash” fiction, non-fiction, and poetry entries.

Read the anthology in this PDF file.

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NOTE: Since the FlashLIT Reception and Reading was canceled due to COVID-19 stipulations, we will be having a "mash-up" reading event with UNCW Sustainability on Thursday, April 23rd at 5:30 on Zoom.  See this website for more information: https://uncw.edu/sustainability/enviromentalpoetry.html

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First Place: E.J. Schwartz: “Melon”

Second Place: Erica A. Langston: “Unnatural Disaster”

Third Place: Sam Pesot: “Snap”

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The judges also selected 13 pieces to be included alongside the winners in this year's FlashLIT anthology which will be designed and published by the Creative Writing Publishing Lab students, and illustrated by ART 260 graphic design students.

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(alphabetical by author's last name)

Honorable Mentions:

Darby Freeman: “Come Up and Get Me”

Sarah George: “Sated by Knowledge”

Sydney Giaquinto: “Daydreaming”

Kayla Greene: “A Temporary Feast”

Hannah Horn: “Breaking Fast”

Mikaela Kesinger: “Trough of Knowledge”

Martina Litty: “”Sweet Tooth”

Fairley Lloyd: “My Mom’s Guide to Alternative Eating”

Bo L. Miller: “Famine BEaten”

Ricki Nelson: “The Green Wind”

Christopher Sturdy: “Homecoming: A Feast of Seahawks”

Hayley Swinson: “Tuesdays at Randall”

Harper Vining: “The Audio Buffet”

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FlashLIT is an expansion of our annual Flash Fiction Contest, which is a hallmark of applied learning at UNCW, and the entire student body is invited to participate.  FlashLIT is a writing competition where contestants have one week to write 500 words (or less) in any genre of writing. (Detailed rules and regulations below.) 

Once all the entries are judged, three top winners are chosen along with honorable mentions and those stories are illustrated by UNCW graphic design students and published in an anthology by the UNCW Publishing Laboratory.  The top three winners are also awarded monetary prizes.  First prize - $200.00; Second prize - $150.00; Third prize - $100.00 (applied to student UNCW accounts).  

On Wednesday, April 22nd, students will host a reading reception to celebrate the FlashLIT anthology.  This year's FlashLIT reception and exhibits will be in partnership with Creative Writing, Art & Art History, as well as a celebration of Earth Day.  Randall Library's Sherman Hayes and Sundial galleries will feature student artwork that correspond with this year’s theme.   

And without further ado, this year’s theme:  FEAST OR FAMINE 

Feast or famine is an idiom that means overabundance or shortage. This expression originated as “either feast or fast”, which is how it appeared in Thomas Fuller’s Gnomologia (1732) and still survived in 1912: “Dock labour has been graphically described as ‘either a feast or a fast,’” London Daily Telegraph.  In America, famine was substituted for fast sometime during the twentieth century.  The term is still frequently applied to alternating overabundance and shortages (source).   

Themes of feast or famine can be found in literature, in art and sculptures, in film and television, and throughout history.   

How will you interpret FEAST OR FAMINE into your FlashLIT entry?

FlashLIT Contest Rules
If any of these rules are not followed your submission will be automatically disqualified.

• Must be a UNCW student, currently enrolled.
• 500 words or less.
• Must include theme FEAST OR FAMINE. Must mention Randall Library.
• Double spaced.
• 12 pt., Times New Roman.
• 1-inch margins on all sides.
• Use one tab to indicate every paragraph indent.
• Submissions due by Wednesday, February 5th at 5:00 p.m.
• Four (4) hard copies delivered to the Randall Library Circulation Desk.  
• Note:  The circulation desk is ONLY a drop- off point.  No information about the contest will be available from Circulation Staff.
• Each copy MUST have a cover sheet with name, UNCW email, and 850 number. DO NOT include name or personal information on actual submission.
• One entry per student

If your entry is selected, the following regulations must be adhered to:

• An emailed .docx version of your submission.
• Section breaks should be notated by (***).
• Turn off all auto-formatting features (such as automatic paragraph indenting, outlining, bullet points).
• Enter only one space after terminal punctuation. If you used two spaces, search/replace to update your file.
• For dashes, use em-dash character with no space on either side, or use two hyphens, and we’ll search and replace the em-dash during typesetting.
• For any special characters or glyphs, such as trademark symbols, accents, or irregular punctuation, please note them by highlighting them in yellow with MS Word's "text highlight color" feature. 
• If you'd like to include a special character or a glyph but you don't know how to set it, please submit a hardcopy of your story with specific instructions for the placement and type of special character to be inserted.
• Files should be saved as follows: lastname_firstname.docx.

      NOTE: Edits and revisions will NOT be allowed after submissions, nor will the publisher have time to check your work. Take care that your piece is fully edited and perfected before submitting.

      NOTE: If your submission is selected for publication, you will be required to sign the following release:FlashLIT Student Release Form