Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

How does working with multiple languages, cultures, and communities change how we understand digital humanities as a discipline? Dr. Laura Gonzales, Dr. Ginessa Mahar, and Melissa Jerome explore this question by sharing their recent digital humanities work. In “Languages and Digital Humanities”, the panelists will describe the processes, challenges, and lessons learned from work such as the United Fronteras project, the US Caribbean and Ethnic Florida Digital Newspaper Project, and transcriptions of Native American oral histories. This panel may be of interest to students, instructors, and researchers in international and multilingual digital humanities, digital libraries and archives, and cross-cultural communications.

Panelists

Dr. Laura Gonzales is an Assistant Professor of Digital Writing and Cultural Rhetorics in the Department of English at the University of Florida. Her research intersects conversations on translation, community engagement, and technology design. She is the author of Sites of Translation: What Multilinguals can Teach us about Digital Writing and Rhetoric (University of Michigan Press, 2018) and Designing Multilingual Experiences in Technical Communication (forthcoming by Utah State University Press).

Melissa Jerome is the Project Coordinator for the US Caribbean & Ethnic Florida Digital Newspaper Project. She is responsible for all the day-to-day project activities, including all technical and administrative activities related to digitizing the selected newspapers. She maintains communication with project partners and vendors and oversees all outreach activities and publicity efforts related to the project. Melissa’s work explores ways to engage with digital collections to enhance research and learning.

Dr. Ginessa Mahar serves as the Anthropology Librarian and Liaison to the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program for the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida. An archaeologist with a background in museums, Mahar’s research in the Libraries largely focuses on digital cultural heritage and archives. She is the recipient of two recently awarded grants that center on revitalizing collections for the 21^st century via digital transcription.