UW Textual Studies Minor Completes Digital Edition of The Strand Magazine
Blue Jordan on Digitizing Historical Materials from UW Special Collections Over the fall quarter, UW Textual Studies student Blue Jordan completed their Capstone project, a digital edition of a 1901 volume of The Strand Magazine held in the UW Special Collections. In their own words, Blue describes the inspiration behind the project, working with rare materials […]
Letterpress Holiday Cards and Linocut Printing with UW Textual Studies
TXTDS Fall Quarter Event Recap | Printmaking Social: Holiday Edition To ring in the end of the fall quarter and the start of winter break, UW Textual Studies hosted a Printmaking Social: Holiday Edition. Themed around card making, this session offered students in the Textual Studies Minor and Graduate Certificate program the chance to print […]
UW Textual Studies Minor Completes Capstone on Collection Development in the UW Libraries
Riley Hull on Helping UW Libraries Build English Studies Reference Holdings During this past academic year, UW Textual Studies alum and current MA student in the history of the book at the University of London, Riley Hull, completed a Capstone project in conjunction with UW Libraries on collection development in the subject of English Studies. Working under […]
UW Textual Studies Minor Completes Capstone on Citation in the Early Modern Period
Aries Chen on Building a Digital Exhibition of Citation in Early Modern French Texts During this past academic year, UW Textual Studies alum and current iSchool MLIS student, Aries Chen, completed a Capstone project that explored citation methods in French texts of the early modern period. Researching rare artifacts in UW Special Collections, Aries scanned, […]
UW Textual Studies Minor Experiments with TEI Encoding of Video Game for Capstone Project
Emily Backstrom on Applying Textual Transcription Methods to Interactive Media Over this past academic year, UW Textual Studies student Emily Backstrom completed a Capstone project that experimented with text encoding to transcribe interactive media. Using XML and the Text Encoding Initiative guidelines, Emily transcribed video game scripts from Deltarune, a an episodic role-playing video game. Read on […]
Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Graduates Accepted to Master’s in Library Sciences and Book History
UW Textual Studies Alums Continue to MLIS Programs and MA in the History of the Book Join us in congratulating recent UW Textual Studies alums, Aries Chen, Jules Lockett, Steven Haker, Emily Backstrom, Malika Brown, and Riley Hull who have been accepted to Master’s programs in Library and Information Sciences and the History of the […]