Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Giving Literature Virtual Life

Another article in the NYTimes hits closely home to English for New Media. They're calling it digital humanities and using things like 3D space to thoroughly study Shakespeare. The article then goes on to talk about an undergraduate student getting a digital senior thesis accepted:

"Jen Rajchel, one of the conference organizers, is the first undergraduate at Bryn Mawr to have a digital senior thesis accepted by the English department: a Web site and archive on the American poet Marianne Moore, who attended the college nearly a century ago."

check it out:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/books/digital-humanities-boots-up-on-some-campuses.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=homepage&src=me

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