Liberal Arts Expands Digital Humanities Support

Smith will work with Eduardo Urbina, director of the college’s Digital Humanities program, to handle programming and project management for selected Liberal Arts DH projects. He also will act as technology liaison for the college among the open source community, the Center for the Study of Digital Libraries, the Digital Initiatives Research and Technology Lab, the Digital Humanities Working Group and with several colleges at Texas A&M University.

“Digital humanities is an interdisciplinary form of scholarship that uses information technology to illuminate the humanities through novel interpretations and explorations of archival materials and large collections of data,” said Urbina. “For example, the Cervantes Project allows scholars to go online and examine and investigate the complete works of the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes as well as a fully documented database and digital archive of images about the illustrations of the Quixote.”

James Smith earned his B.S. in mathematics and physics from Texas A&M in 2001. He has more than eight years experience in systems administration, web application development, and involvement in various open source communities. Smith has completed his coursework for a creative writing M.A. in English.

His office is located in Glasscock 306. Faculty interested in the digital humanities may reach Smith by e-mail at jgsmith@tamu.edu or telephone at 979.845.3050. His office hours are 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Monday and Tuesday, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday or by appointment. Information is also available on the web at http://dh.tamu.edu/.

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