Queer Art and Archives: Critical DH Pedagogy in Action  

Apr 26, 2023 | CDHI Blog

By Rachel Corbman In 2017, E.G. Crichton and Jeffrey Escoffier invited me to participate in OUT/LOOK and the Birth of the Queer, an exhibit celebrating the 30th anniversary of the important gay and lesbian magazine OUT/LOOK National Lesbian and Gay Quarterly. For the...

Creating Space: A Q&A with Oral Historian Elio Colavito

Mar 28, 2023 | CDHI Blog

For Elio Colavito, oral history allows queer and trans people to speak “to and through the historical record” toward a history that allows them to simply be people, with their own rich lives and experiences and stories. But what of the process of hearing...

Water Scarcity & Transformation: A Q&A with Shanmugapriya T

Mar 13, 2023 | CDHI Blog

First up in our Spotlight on Emerging Scholars Series: Dr. Shanmugapriya T discusses her work employing the cutting-edge features of digital humanities and literature to study water scarcity issues in her home of Coimbatore — and explains how digital mapping can be...

The Critical Digital Humanities Initiative: Introducing Our Strategic Plan 

Sep 17, 2022 | CDHI Blog

Strategic Plan 2021-2024 A three-year, 2.9M strategic initiative based at U of T, CDHI supports interdisciplinary collaborations bringing together questions of power, social justice, and critical theory in digital humanities research. Earlier this summer, we launched...

CDHI is Hiring: Digital Projects Assistant (Work Study, Fall 2022)

Aug 10, 2022 | News, Open call for position, Student Jobs

The Digital Projects Assistant will be a core member of the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative (CDHI) team, directed by Prof. Elspeth Brown. The Digital Projects Assistant will work directly with the CDHI Managing Director and the Event and Program Coordinator and...