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About amandafrench

I have a Ph.D. in English literature; my 2004 dissertation was a history of the villanelle. During graduate school I gained a good bit of experience with building websites, with technology training, and with marking up texts in XML at the Rossetti Archive and the Electronic Text Center; since then I’ve continued to do work (often in university libraries) related to the two cultures of technology and the humanities.

The Humanities and Technology Camp at Vassar

THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) Pedagogy is now accepting applications. THATCamp is a free, open “unconference” — a retreat-like space for discussion and creation. We invite faculty, administrators, research and archival librarians, and students interested in the confluence of … Continue reading

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THATCamp Jersey Shore — The Humanities And Technology Camp

Applications are now open for THATCamp Jersey Shore, a free, open unconference on The Humanities And Technology. Training workshops in digital skills will be offered, and $500 fellowships are available. See http://jerseyshore2011.thatcamp.org and http://thatcamp.org for more information. – Amanda French … Continue reading

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The Humanities And Technology Camp: $500 Fellowships available

THATCamp, The Humanities And Technology Camp, is a free, open, interdisciplinary “unconference” where humanists and technologists meet to work together for the common good. Through the generosity of the Mellon Foundation, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and the … Continue reading

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Project Manager position at the Drexel College of Medicine

More details about the Drexel project on the history of women in medicine are available at http://archives.drexelmed.edu/ip_home.php *** The Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center is seeking a Project Manager for the Legacy Center Interpretive Planning Project. The Project … Continue reading

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Job: Digital Historian for Colonial Williamsburg

From http://bit.ly/djwNoD — probably a particularly good job for someone who has worked with the Access database on the Sanger papers: *Primary Duties * Works as a member of a team of technical and subject specialists to create comprehensive web … Continue reading

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