A Q&A with Christine H. Tran, CDHI Graduate Fellow

Faculty of Information, U of T  | Supervisor: Nicole Cohen Project Title: Amid the Pink Collar: Dressing Up Against Precarity & Patriarchy in Game Streaming What are you hoping to learn as a CDHI fellow? As a CDHI Fellow, I hope to develop online community defence...

Meet CDHI’s 2023-24 Graduate Fellows!

We’re thrilled to welcome our new cohort of Graduate Fellows to CDHI for the 2023-24 year — and, of course, we wanted to learn more about them. Click each image to read their Q&A and see what U of T grad students are working on! Elio Colavito Department of...

A Q&A with Réka Patrícia Gál, CDHI Graduate Fellow

Faculty of Information, U of T  | Supervisors: Sarah Sharma & M. Murphy Project Title: Concrete Rain and Rocket Debris: Mapping the Environmental Harms of SpaceX’s Boca Chica Rocket Launch Facility  What are you hoping to learn as a CDHI fellow? I am...

Queer Art and Archives: Critical DH Pedagogy in Action  

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

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

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...