About the Group
The Digital Humanities Discovery Group, sponsored by William & Mary Libraries, is an interdisciplinary research group interested in widening awareness and stimulating new conversations around the broadly defined field of Digital Humanities as well as generating future collaborations in research and teaching at William & Mary. This group welcomes faculty, professional faculty, staff, and students of William & Mary.
The group’s mission is to bring faculty, professional faculty, staff, and students interested in the Digital Humanities together to foster conversation, learn from each other’s successes and failures, open possibilities for collaboration, and build a scholarly community at William & Mary.
We welcome those with any level of digital humanities or digital scholarship experience. For those already engaged in this work, please come and share your knowledge. For those with no prior experience, please join us on this journey of learning together. You do not have to be a humanist to be involved, as digital humanities is an interdisciplinary field that welcomes all.
Meetings could take the form of training, networking, lightning talks, roundtables, round robin sharing, reading groups, guest lectures, field trips, or conference watch parties.
For questions about the group contact:
Rachel Hogan, Instruction & Research Librarian for Arts & Digital Humanities, rnhogan@wm.edu
Jennifer Putzi, W&M Libraries Faculty Scholar; Sara and Jess Cloud Professor of English & Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, jlputz@wm.edu
Interested in Joining the Group
Thank you to everyone who attended our interest meetings. We are overwhelmed by the positive response to this group.
If you weren't able to make it, but are interested in getting added to our email communication list, fill out this form.
Fall Schedule
To make sure as many people as possible can make the meetings this semester, we will be doing Monday and Tuesday meetings each month this semester. The days and times were picked based on your feedback in the survey. The meetings will be hybrid when it makes sense, and we will send out a link the week before. Feel free to come on Monday or Tuesday for the full hour or only part of the time as your schedule allows.
September: Intro to DH and DHSI 2025 Lightning Talk
In our first set of meetings, our co-conveners will be giving a brief introduction to the Digital Humanities, and participants from the Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2025 in Montréal will share their experiences.
Monday, September 29th at 10 am in the Cox Classroom
Tuesday, September 30th at 12 pm in the Brown Board Room
October: DH Petting Zoo and Playground
In our second set of meetings, we will be engaging in a Digital Humanities Petting Zoo and Playground. Engage and play with stations around the room that will be ready with different tools and projects.
Monday, October 27th at 10 am in the Cox Classroom
Tuesday, October 28th at 12 pm in the Cox Classroom
November: DH in the Classroom and DH Lab Lightning Talks
In our final set of meetings for the semester, we will be talking about Digital Humanities in the Classroom. We will discuss our experiences bringing digital methods into the classroom and hear from representatives from current faculty-directed student research labs working on digital projects.
Monday, November 10th at 10 am in the Kyle Classroom
Tuesday, November 11th at 12 pm in the Cox Classroom
December: Winter Party and Challenge
Single Meeting, date and time TBD