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Digital Humanities Discovery Group

About the Group

The Digital Humanities Discovery Group, sponsored by William & Mary Libraries, is a community of practice 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, ongoing research presentations, roundtables, open forums, reading groups, guest lectures, field trips, or conference watch parties.

If you are interested in joining, please subscribe to our listserv.

For questions about the group contact:

Rachel Hogan, Instruction & Research Librarian for Arts & Digital Humanities, rnhogan@wm.edu

Jennifer Putzi, Sara and Jess Cloud Professor of English & Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, jlputz@wm.edu

Listserv

For meeting invites, resource sharing, and more, please join our listserv following the instructions below.

  1. Send a message to sympa@lists.wm.edu from the address you want to subscribe to the list.
  2. In the subject line of your message, type in: subscribe "digital-humanities-discovery-group@lists.wm.edu" FirstName LastName
  3. Leave the message body blank.

You can also visit William & Mary's Mail List Service and then find the "digital-humanities-discovery-group" and subscribe.

Fall 2026 Schedule

This fall we have hybrid meetings on the following Wednesdays from 3:00 - 4:30 pm in the Cox Classroom of Swem Library.

September 9th: TBD

October 14th: TBD

November 11th: TBD

December 2nd: TBD

Past Meetings

April 2026: Ongoing DH Research Presentation: Molly Swetnam-Burland, Liber Memorialis

March 2026: Ongoing DH Research Presentation: Robyn Schroeder, Revolutionary Transformations of William & Mary: Public History at the Seminquincentennial

February 2026: Ongoing DH Research Presentation: Libby Eick, Videlicit

January 2026: DH Idea Incubator

November 2025: DH in the Classroom and DH Lab Lightning Talks

October 2025: DH Petting Zoo and Playground

September 2025: Intro to DH and DHSI 2025 Lightning Talk