I have a background in film, literary studies, history of the book studies, and library and information science. My library career began while I was earning my MA in English at Loyola Marymount University (LMU), where I was given a unique opportunity to intern in the University’s Department of Archives and Special Collections; I was later hired by the department. After earning my MLIS from Syracuse University, I became LMU’s first Digital Scholarship (DS) librarian.
Before working in libraries, I was a filmmaking industry professional, initially working in post-production and then in the art department, where I spent most of my time. My creative background strongly influences my approach to DS methodologies and practices, my management style, and my vision for DS and the digital world more broadly.
Currently, I am at Boston College, where I am the Head of BC Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Group, co-director of the Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities, and a student in the University’s Formative Education PhD program.
Here are a few highlights from my work that might be beneficial to fellow librarians and instructors.
Presentations
- “Antisemitism on Twitter: Teaching Students How to Analyze Online Hate Through A Simple Information Literacy Assignment,” Digital Library Federation Forum, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2018 (see slides)
- “Archives, Race, and Justice,” Co-presented with Julia Lee, Digital Library Federation Forum, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2018 (see project)
- “Digital Humanities as Community Engagement in the Digital Watts Project.” Digital Library Federation Liberal Arts Colleges Pre-Conference, Milwaukee, November 2016 (see slides and project)
Publications
- “The Importance of Being Discovered: The Werner Von Boltenstern Shanghai Photograph and Negative Collection” (2018), author
- “Digital Humanities as Community Engagement: The Digital Watts Project.” Digital Humanities, Libraries, and Partnerships: A Critical Examination of Labor, Networks, and Community. (2018) (See the introduction, in which our chapter is featured, and a preprint version, co-author
Resources
- #DLFteach Volume 3: Lesson Plans for Literacy and Competency Driven Digital Scholarship Instruction (2022), co-editor
- #DLFteach Toolkit Volume 2: Lesson Plans on Immersive Pedagogy (2021), co-editor
Teaching Slides
- Digital Humanities & Literary Scholarship talk slides
- Introduction to Libraries and Archives talk slides
- Book as Object and Literary Studies talk slides
- Digital Exhibits workshop slide
* “It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane.” –Moby-Dick, EXTRACTS. (Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian).