Michael Widner
Academic Technology Specialist for the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
I work as the Academic Technology Specialist for the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (DLCL). My role is to work with faculty and their research assistants as a consultant, collaborator, and innovator in DLCL-based digital humanities and instructional technology projects. I also organize and present workshops and lectures on practices and theories in these realms.
Recent Posts
Education
- Ph.D., English, The University of Texas at Austin
- M.A., English, Southern Methodist University
- B.A., English and French, The University of Texas at Arlington
Professional activities
Association for Computing and the Humanities
Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research (CIDR)
DLCL Digital Humanities Focal Group
Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC)
Stanford University Libraries Web Archiving Service Committee
Selected Publications
“Medieval Worlds / Digital Worlds: How the Future is Transforming the Past,” in Humanities and the Digital. Ed. David Theo Goldberg and Patrik Svensson. MIT Press, 2015. Co-author with Geraldine Heng.
“Samson’s Touch and a Thin Red Line: Reading the Bodies of Jews and Saints in Bury St Edmunds,” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 111.3 (July 2012): 339–359.
More about me
I am the Director of Technology for Lacuna, a digital platform for reading, annotating, and writing. I am the Project Director for Bibliopedia, a platform for the organization, analysis, and sharing of digital research objects. I am active on twitter @mwidner and blog at Manuscripts and Machines.